International Sponge Importers Ltd v Watt and Son: HL 31 Mar 1911

Circumstances in which held that the purchaser was not bound to pay over again for goods for which he had already paid, though such prior payment had been made, out of the usual course of business, in cash to the seller’s commercial traveller, who had embezzled the money.

Judges:

Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), Lord Atkinson, and Lord Shaw

Citations:

[1911] UKHL 515, 48 SLR 515

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Contract, Agency

Updated: 13 June 2022; Ref: scu.619191