SUPREME COURT.
In Banco. ; (Before His Honor Mr Justice Kicji- ■■! --^i -'""^.l . mond.) '■■-' \ Li '•' FaiDAt, March 28. j Manaen v. Sansen. j This was an appeal from the judgment of Robert Ward, Esq-i Resident r-Magistrate. , Ic appeared from the case that the pi untiff eutered into an agree- . mgnt with the defendant for the felliog liy the defehdani of twenty-seven acres of bush at the price £2 8s per acre, which the defendant refused' to pei^fbrra, in consequence whereof the plaiti"jiff was obliged to enter into a second contract for the felling of the buah at the price of £3 per acre. At the hearing of the case on the 20th December. 1883, the Resident Magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff for the sum of £16 4s and costs,being the difference between the contract price and thd price at which the plaintiff could get this work done at the time of the breach viz., £3 per acre. A rehearing of the Magistrate gave judgment for the defendant, on the ground that, tlie ; Woik mentioned in the second contract had hot he?n commenced the plaintiff's action was premature. The appeal was gmnted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 3
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191SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 3
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