Wilson V. Brett in Europe

Definition of Wilson V. Brett

((1843), 11 M. & W. 113). A party who performs services for another gratuitously is not liable for damage, provided he uses such skill as he actually has. If he represents that he has any special skill, he is liable if he fails to use such skill.
The defendant, a person conversant with and skilled in horses, at the plaintiff’s request rode a horse belonging to the plaintiff for the purpose of showing it for sale. In consequence of the slippery nature of the show ground the horse slipped and injured itself. The Judge left it to the jury to say whether it was a matter of culpable negligence in the defendant to ride the horse there, and told them that the defendant, being skilled in the management of horses, was bound to take as much care as if he had borrowed it. Held, that the jury had been properly directed

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Definition of Wilson V. Brett is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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