Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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HIGHLAND RAILWAY COMPANY v. A. & G. PATERSON, LTD. ET E CONTRA.

(1926) 26 Ll.L.Rep. 172

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before Viscount Dunedin, Lord Shaw, Lord Sumner, Lord Wrenbury and Lord Blanesburgh.

Contract-Offer and acceptance-Offer by railway company to unspecified persons to carry home-grown timber at standard rate - ". . . the present exceptional rates . . . shall continue during the period of the war, and for so long after the period of the war as the present arrangement entered into between the Government and the railway companies remains in force"-Right to withdraw offer-Powers under Ministry of Transport Act, 1919.

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