Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 004040/1977 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment.
1. In this action the plaintiff company sues upon what it pleads as an agreement for hire. The defendant firm, in its defence, refers to the agreement as a letting. However, Mr. Patrick Chan, a sales representative in the employ of the plaintiff company, describes the transaction as a sale, and Mr. Hung, an erstwhile partner in the defendant firm, says that he would not have bought the machine but for certain representations which he would have it were made to him by Mr. Chan, of which more here