The Weekly Law Reports
[1957] 2 WLR 254
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
SHEIKH BROTHERS LTD. APPELLANT; AND ARNOLD JULIUS OCHSNER AND ANOTHER RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL FOR EASTERN AFRICA.
1957 Jan. 14.
LORD OAKSEY, LORD COHEN, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM, and MR. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
East Africa
— Contract
— Mistake
— Licence to cut and process sisal
— Provision for delivery of stipulated minimum quantity to licensor
— Leaf potential insufficient for fulfilment of contractual requirements
— Mutual mistake as to essential matter of fact
— Contract impossible in itself
— Contract void
— Effect of statutory provisions
— Licensor not entitled to compensation
—
Indian Contract Act, IX of 1872, ss. 20, 56.
Contract
— Mistake. India.