“…proprietary tort. The majority (Arden and Tuckey LJJ) held that the court was bound by its previous decision in Stoke-on-Trent City Council v W &J Wass Limited [1988] 1 WLR 1406 to answer this question in the negative, whereas Longmore LJ considered that, read in the light of the decision of the House of Lords in Attorney General v Bla…”
“…o Ltd v. Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798, Meters Ltd v. Metropolitan Gas Meters Ltd (1911) 28 RPC 157 at 165, Stoke-on-Trent City Council v. W & J Wass Ltd [1988] 1 WLR 1406 at 1416, referring to The Mediana [1900] AC 113 at 117, where the Earl of Halsbury LC said that a defendant who had deprived the plaintiff of one of the chairs…”