The issuing of an instruction was not a condition precedent to entitlement to payment in a construction contract.
Judges:
Earl Loreburn
Citations:
1915 SC (HL) 20, [1915] UKHL 3, [1915] AC 526, 1915 1 SLT 114
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Citing:
At HL (1) – Boyd and Forrest v GWSR Co HL 16-May-1912
The parties had contracted for the construction of an embankment to support a railway track. The pursuers now said that they had been induced to enter the contract by means of fraudulent misrepresentation as to the results of borings at the site. . .
Appeal from – Boyd and Forrest v GWSR Co SCS 7-Mar-1914
The pursuers’ case is that they were led to enter into a contract with the defenders to execute certain works of construction of a railway for a lump sum, and that they were led to tender to do the work for a certain price, by the other party, the . .
Cited by:
Cited – AMEC Mining v Scottish Coal Company SCS 6-Aug-2003
The pursuers contracted to remove coal by opencast mining from the defender’s land. They said the contract assumed the removal first of substantial peat depositys from the surface by a third party. They had to do that themselves at substantial cost. . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Construction, Scotland
Updated: 07 June 2022; Ref: scu.185454