LAW REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2465, 19 May 1915, Page 9

LAW REPORTS

SUPREME COURT

CIVIL ACTION SETTLED

RESCISSION OF A CONTRACT

His Honour tho Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) was occupied iu tho Supreme Court yesterday morning with tho hearing of tho civil action, Lawrence Lyons v. Edward Morris, junr. This was a claim for rescission of a contract for tlio purchase of the Jivery stables business of E. Morris, junr., ill Tinakori Road. Mr. T. M. Wilford appeared for Lyons, while Mr. H. Buddie appeared for the defendant.

Plaintiff claimed that ho had boon induced to enter into a contract for tho purchase of the business by the misrepresentations of one Charles M'lntyro, employed by tho defendant. Tin! plaintiff said that such , representations were as a matter of fact untrue, and that he (plaintiff) should be entitled to liavo tho contract rescinded, and to obtain a refund of payments made on account of the purchaso, and that ho should bo placed in statu quo as before the contract.

Tho defendant denied the allegod misrepresentations.

At tho luncheon adjournment, after tbo plaintiff had given evidence, terms of settlement were arrived at, by which the contract is rescinded and possession of tho business handed over from tho plaintiff to the defendant to-day. Satisfactory settlements iu regard to damages and costs were arranged.

The Court then adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning.