Read the full judgment text of CACV 000027/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 January 1975.
2. The circumstances out of which the dispute arose may, without unduly simplifying them, be stated as follows : On 14th November 1972 a Mr. Howard Thomas Drue, the Managing Director of the plaintiff company (appellants in the present case) purporting to act on behalf of the company executed an agreement of sale and purchase in respect of the land whereby it was sold to Donald Huk Keung Chow (the second defendant in the action) at a price of $75 per square foot. This agreement was negotiated on