WHISKY AGENCY CASE
AWARD OF £7444 DAMAGES. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 22. Damages amounting to £7444 sterling equivalent to £9305 in Australian currency were granted by Mr Justice Halse Rogers, in the Commercial Causes Court to-day, to B. Davis, Limited wine and spirit merchants, London’in their £250,000 claim against Tooth and Company, Ltd., Sydney. By consent a stay of proceedings for fourteen days was granted, pending an appeal. Judgment was given on February 7 bv Mr Justice Halse Rogers in the action by B. Davis, Ltd., against Tooth and Co., Ltd., to recover damages for breaches of an agreement providing for a whisky selling agency in New South Wales. His Honor found for the plaintiffs on a number of important issues. - . , ~ ~, His Honor said: “It is clear that the plaintiffs are entitled to have damages assessed in respect of such injury as they can show on account of and resulting from the faulty stoppers used bv the defendants in bottling; on account of the failure of the defendants to carry out their obligations of pushing Watson’s No. 10 and Watson s special, and on account of the- sale by the defendants of other whiskies.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 138, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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