Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 008191/1968 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 16 December 1968.
1. This action is brought by the plaintiff as drawee of a cheque alleged by him to have been given by the 2nd defendant in return for a personal loan, but by the defendants for the purpose of redeeming certain goods deposited by them as security to the 3rd party in respect of a debt for which the plaintiffs was also a guarantor. The defendants further allege that the plaintiff failed to make such a redemption and that therefore the consideration for the cheque has wholly failed. I did not grasp