Read the full judgment text of CACV 000183/1989 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 May 1990.
2. The basis of the decision was that the Defendant's seller failed to fulfil its obligations on a rising market. All the contemporaneous documents which had come into existence during the latter part of December and the early part of January supported the Plaintiff's account and did not support the Defendant's account (even those that came from the Defendant) and the Defendant's reaction to the amended letter of credit was to ignore it. In the pleadings every conceivable point was taken by the