BONNINGTON CASTINGS LTD v WARDLAW [1956] 1 All ER 615 The facts are stated in the speech of Lord Reid, in the House of Lords, beginning at p 616:

My Lords, the respondent was employed by the appellants for eight years in the dressing shop of their foundry in Leith and, while employed there, he contracted the disease of pneumoconiosis by inhaling air which contained minute particles of silica. He ceased work on 12 May 1950. The Lord Ordinary (Lord Wheatley) held the appellants liable for this and awarded £2,000 damages. The First Division by a majority (Lord Carmont and Lord Russell, the Lord President (Lord Clyde) dissenting) adhered to the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary.