CLAIM BY BUILDING COMPANY

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26211, 7 September 1950, Page 3

CLAIM BY BUILDING COMPANY

JUDGMENT GIVEN FOR £343 * The litigation was inevitable because

of the difficulties the parties found themselves in, in setting out on an arTtngement in the loose way they did, Baid Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court yesterday, giving his reserved decision on the claim' by the Hobby Construction Company, Ltd., against Geoffrey Thomas Noble a draughtsman, for the balance said to be due for the building of a house at btyx. His Honour gave judgment for the plaintiff company for £343 10s lOd. The case was heard on Monday and Tuesday. Mr E. S. Bowie appeared for the plaintiff and Mr R. A. Young, and with him Mr H. O. Jacobsen, for the defendant. His Honour, giving his decision, said that he had examined the evidence and had tried to spell out the arrangement, if there was one, that the parties had entered into. He was persuaded that each party, Lawrence William Hobby, managing director of the plaintiff company, and Noble, was honest; honest with each other and honest with the Court; but neither had the knowledge that the other thought he had. Hobby had built a good house but not so cheaply as he thought he wuld and Noble had a better house than he had contemplated but one more than he could probably afford. His Honour was driven to the necessity of himself determining an appropriate value for that supplied by nobby to Noble. On the figures submitted there was £343 10s 10d still by Noble to Hobby and there must be judgment for that amount, tach party would bear their own costs.