Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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SETTLE, SPEAKMAN & CO., LTD. v. METAL UNION, LTD.

(1927) 29 Ll L Rep 278

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice MacKinnon.

Sale of goods-Price-Coal briquettes c.i.f. -Agreement between buyers and sellers that whole contract price should be paid, sellers paying freight-Sub-sale- Sub-buyers sued by shipowners for freight unpaid by original sellers-Legal right of or universal practice for buyer to deduct freight from contract price- Failure of consideration - Claim by buyers for return of freight unpaid allowed.

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