K & S Lake City Freighters Pty Ltd v Gordon & Gotch Ltd

157 CLR 309
60 ALR 509

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(Judgment by: DAWSON J)

K & S Lake City Freighters Pty Ltd
v Gordon & Gotch Ltd

Court:

Judges: Gibbs CJ
Mason J
Brennan J
Deane J
Dawson J

Subject References:
Contract
Statutes

Hearing date: 26 March 1985
Judgment date: 1 August 1985

Canberra

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Judgment by:
DAWSON J

For the reasons given by the Chief Justice and Deane J., I agree that, whatever questions may be raised by the context of the Motor Vehicles Act 1959 (SA), there is nothing which is sufficiently compelling to require a departure from the plain meaning of the words used in s 133. Accordingly, I am of the view that that section did apply to the contract for the carriage of the goods and that the appeal should be dismissed.