Further to my earlier post on this failure. Should you decide to proceed with legal action, your lawyer would be well advised to review the case of Woodburn v Newnham and Co. This case was heard and tried by jury in the British law courts, November 19,20&21, 1929. This case refers to a failure of a gun that exhibited a longtitudinal barrel failure very similar to that illustrated in this post;with injuries resulting to the user.This was a complex case with expert witnesses being called both from the Birmingham maker of the gun;[Newnham being a retailer] and the Birmingham proof master;the gun having past proof test at Birmingham. Burrard was called as an expert witness for the plaintiff.Burrards,Photo Micrographs of the barrel, showed a longtitudinal seam in the barrel material.The defence alleged that the failure was caused by some type of barrel obstruction. The jury on a majority decision found for the defendant!
Last edited by Roy Hebbes; 02/06/11 09:28 AM.
