King's Norton Metal Company Ltd v Edridge, Merrett & Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1897
Date1897
CourtCourt of Appeal

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9 cases
  • P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 May 2018
    ...intends to contract. This was the position in Boulton v Jones 27 LJ Ex 117, Cundy v Lindsay 3 App Cas 459 and King's Norton Metal Co Ltd v Edridge, Merrett & Co Ltd 14 TLR 98. There is a substantial body of authority that demonstrates that the identity of a party to a contract in writing fa......
  • Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 19 November 2003
    ...standing, the loss falls on the unfortunate owner of the goods who was tricked into parting with them to the crook. King's Norton Metal Co Ltd v Edridge, Merrett and Co Ltd (1897) 14 TLR 98 is an instance of this. There the crook ordered some brass rivet wire from a metal manufacturer. On h......
  • Lewis v Averay
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 July 1971
    ...costs to be paid out of the Legal Aid Fund. Application under section of the 1964 Act and Regulation 11King's Norton Metal Co. Ltd, v. Edridge Merrett & Co. Ltd. (1897) 14 T.L.R. 98, and of Mr. Justice Horridge in Phillips v. Brooks, 1919 2 K.B. 243, which has stood for these last fifty yea......
  • Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 June 2001
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1 books & journal articles
  • Mistake
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...the writer had more attractive attributes than proved to be the case. The distinction between 46 Cundy , above note 45 at 465. 47 (1897), 14 TLR 98 (CA) [ King’s Norton ]. THE LAW OF CONTR ACTS 594 identity and attributes may be thought to capture a genuine distinction between the facts of ......