Hauliers Awarded £1,000 Damages
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LODGMENT for £1,000 damages and J costs in favour of Mr. George Leonard Jopp and Mr. James Blacklock, trading as George Black and Co., transport contractor, Surbiton, Surrey, was given against Vernon's Industries, Ltd., Kirkby Trading Estate, Kirkby, Liverpool, by Mr. Justice (.room-Johnson, in the King's Bench Division, last week.
Plaintiffs stated that Vernon's Industries, Ltd., described as an offshoot of a parent concern at Liverpool, agreed to hire three lorries for 44 hours a week for 12 months for delivery of its goods in England, Scotland and Wales. It set up two contracts dated October 26 and November 24, 1948. The defendant, it was stated, manufactured kitchen littings.
Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said the defendant's business developed quickly and by the autumn of 1947 needed more transport for its goods to the south. It made an arrangement with the plaintiffs, ''ho had started a small business as transport contractors about the end of the war.
He thought Mr. W. Rushton, the defendant's commercial manage r, entered into the contracts concerned, and then it turned out that they were not needed when new vehicles belonging To the defendant were delivered. He then sought for a way of getting himself out of the difficulty.
Defendant had failed to prove allegations that the plaintiffs had not given reasonably satisfactory service, said the judge. He had no doubt that the plaintiffs we. e starved to a large extent of the loads that they might have received.
Up to the time of the purported cancellation of the contracts, he held that they were entitled to have £300, and for the period between then and the date to which the contracts would have run, a further £700.