Author: George Knox

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780260208767

Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1880, Vol. 2: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters The first five counts of the Plaintiff's declaration stated that one A. Had shipped goods to B. At Sydney and had drawn against the same bills on B. Which together with the bill of lading he indorsed to the Commercial Bank of Van Diemen's Land, of which the Plaintiff was public officer that A. Retained the Plaintiff's Bank for reward to receive payment of the bill from B. And on pay ment thereof, and not otherwise, to deliver the bill of lading to B and that the Plaintiff's Bank indorsed the bill of exchange and bill of lading to the Defendants as their agents in Sydney, they having notice of the premises and that the Plaintifl's Bank retained the Defendants upon the same terms as it was retained by Armstrong. Breach; that the Defendants delivered the bill of ladin g to B. Without obtaining payment of the bill of exchange by means whereof the goods were lost to Plaintiff's Bank and A. And the Plaintiff's Bank incurred costs and expenses in defending an action brought by A., and was compelled to pay A. Damages by reason of the loss of the goods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.