Sumpter v Hedges

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1898
Year1898
CourtCourt of Appeal

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  • What does it take to get compensated from a builder in WA?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 5 June 2012
    ...lump sum contract, this may mean that the builder has not "earned" any part of the lump sum contract price at all: see Sumpter v Hedges [1898] 1 QB 673. In that event, it may be that the builder is only entitled to be paid an amount representing the "fair value" of the works actually perfor......
8 books & journal articles
  • RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 2, April 2022
    • 1 April 2022
    ...early case is Appleby vMyers(1867) LR 2 CP 651, 661 (Blackburn J), which cites, inter alia, Cutter (n 171). See also Sumpter v Hedges [1898] 1 QB 673, 674 (AL Smith (183) In addition to the cases cited at n 182 above, see, eg, Forman & Co Pty Ltd v The Ship 'Liddesdale' [1900] AC 190, 2......
  • Restitution
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...be a reference to the general reluctance of the courts to grant quantum meruit remedy to a party in breach of contract (Sumpter v Hedges[1898] 1 QB 673). This may, however, be contrasted with the more liberal judicial approach to allow the party in breach to recover money paid out on the ba......
  • Restitution and Disgorgement
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Remedies
    • 4 August 2020
    ...to enforce the price term of the agreement subject, of course, to the employer’s counterclaim for losses resulting from the defective 96 [1898] 1 QB 673 (CA) [ Sumpter v Hedges ]. See also Lacroix Bros & Co Ltd v Cook , [1926] 4 DLR 747 (Sask CA). 97 Sumpter v Hedges , ibid at 676. 98 See S......
  • Concurrent Duties
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 82-1, January 2019
    • 1 January 2019
    ...so there is no concurrent liability.9283 For examples of the English cases, see: Cutter vPowell (1795) 101 ER 573 (KB); Sumpter vHedges [1898] 1 QB 673 (CA); Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna vFairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd[1943] AC 32 (HL); Stocznia Gdanska vLatvian Shipping Co [1998] 1 WLR 574 (......
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