Dublin Port and Docks Board v Brittania Dredging Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 31 July 1968 |
| Date | 31 July 1968 |
| Docket Number | [1968. No. 1661 P.] |
| Court | Supreme Court |
(S.C.)
Dublin Port and Docks Board
and
Brittania Dredging Co. Ltd
Contract -Negative term - Agreement that party would not remove equipment from site - Imminent breach of contract threatened.
The defendants contracted with the plaintiffs to perform certain dredging works. The defendants had assessed their costs of the works on the basis of a survey of the site which the plaintiffs had delivered to the defendants before they tendered for the works. The defendants maintained that the plaintiffs had misrepresented the material to be dredged which differed fundamentally from the material described in the survey, and the defendants stated that, as a consequence, they were losing £2,000...
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