SALE OF LAW BOOKS
SOLICITOR’S CLAIM FAILS ACTION AGAINST publishers NO misrepresentation, says the court ! Per Press Association. J PALMERSTON N., March 9. Judgment for the defendant company was given by Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court in a claim by John Bruns Crichton, Palmerston North, solicitor, against Butterworth and Co. (Australia), Lid., law anc. medical publishers. The plaintiff allaged misrepresentation by the defendant's salesman in a sale to him of a set of Halsbury’s "Laws of England,” in that the volumes supplied to him were not new. He claimed 157 3s, the amount paid by him for. the books, and 120 damages for a breach of warranty. “You are trying to succeed on a purely technical question, and I am not satisfied there was anytnrng in the nature of misrepresentation,” said His Honour, to counsel for the plaintiff.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 8
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