The parties agreed to sell a quantity of two brands of beef tallow, 1919 make. The manufacturers of the stipulated brands chose not to manufacture any tallow at one of their works and at the other they were prevented from manufacturing the required quantity by a strike. No delivery was made under the contract and the buyers were awarded damages in arbitration proceedings.
Held: The umpire’s finding that the contract had not been frustrated was upheld on the ground that the contract was not for specific goods but for unascertained goods; accordingly no term could be implied into the contract that the sellers undertook no liability if the manufacturer did not in fact manufacture the goods whatever the reason might be for that failure.
Judges:
Lord Reading CJ and Darling and Acton JJ
Citations:
[1921] 1 KB 219
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – CTI Group Inc v Transclear Sa Comc 14-Sep-2007
The parties had contracted for the sale of concrete. The buyers appealed findings by an arbitrator that the contracts were both frustrated for the inability of the seller to complete after the intervention of a company with an effective monopoly, . .
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Contract
Updated: 10 July 2022; Ref: scu.259370