Knight's Local Government Reports (Volume 6, PT. 1); With Local Government Statutes, Orders, & C (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... The second alleged contract was thus pleaded in the statement of 1908. claim: Bourne and "On or about September 22nd, 1905, it was agreed between the g'Mss"' plaintiffs and the defendants that if the plaintiffs would adapt the Borough Council, system at their said premises by cutting out one of the arc lamps on each circuit so as to be able to receive a temporary supply of electric light at the rate of 200 volts, instead of at the rate of 240 volts, the defendants would within two days from September 22nd, furnish the plaintiffs with electric light at the rate of 200 volts." The plaintitls pleaded a breach of this contract as well as of the first contract. The defendants in their defence denied the making of ths contracts, and that the persons alleged to have made them had any authority from the defendants to enter into them. They further pleaded, inter alia, that the contracts (if made) were not under the seal of the defendants and were therefore not binding upon them. The defendant Council were undertakers for the supply of electricity in their borough under the St. Marylebone Electric Lighting Order, 1901 (scheduled to 1 Edw. VII. c. cxxxvii.), and the St. Marylebone Electric Lighting Act, 1904 (4 Edw. VII. c. xii.). The facts with regard to the alleged contracts on which the plaintiffs sued were thus stated by Ridley J. in his written judgment: --The plaintiffs, who are drapers in a large way of business in Oxford Street, were in 1905 enlarging their premises by taking in. at the back some houses known as 68-70, Berners Street, which, therefore, it would be necessary to fit up with the electric light. The defendants had in the previous year determined to alter the voltage at which the current was supplied from 200 to 240. The plaintiffs were intending ...