The defendant ran a post office. A cash shortage was found, and he challenged the calculation of the account.
Held: The defendant was liable for the deficit in law. He had shown no sufficient reason to make the court think the calculations were wrong, and the defence failed.
Judges:
Richard Havery QC
Citations:
[2007] EWHC 5 (QB)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Shaw v Picton 1825
Bayley J: ‘It is quite clear, that if an agent (employed to receive money, and bound by his duty to his principal from time to time to communicate to him whether the money is received or not,) renders an account from time to time which contains a . .
Cited – Camillo Tank Steamship Company Limited v Alexandria Engineering Works 1921
Viscount Cave (dissenting on other points) said: ‘The expression ‘account stated’ . . has more than one meaning. It sometimes means a claim to payment made by one party and admitted by the other to be correct. An account stated in this sense is no . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Contract, Agency
Updated: 09 July 2022; Ref: scu.247969