Read the full judgment text of CACV 000062/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 14 April 1999.
1. This is an appeal from an order of Barnett, J., made on 1 February 1999, resolving a dispute between vendor and purchaser in favour of the vendor. It came before the judge by a somewhat unusual route, in that the plaintiff purchaser issued proceedings in which the defendant vendor counterclaimed and took out a summons for summary judgment, under Order 86 of the Rules of High Court, for the relief claimed in its counterclaim. The point decided on this summons by the judge was a short point whi