Craine v Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co Ltd

[1920] HCA 64

Craine
vColonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co Ltd

Court:
High Court of Australia

Judges: Knox CJ
Isaacs J
Starke J

Hearing date: 22 October 1920
Judgment date: 31 August 1920

The order, as varied on 22nd October, was as follows:-

Appeals allowed. Judgments appealed from set aside. In the action against the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co. judgment entered for the plaintiff for £363. In the action against the Yorkshire Insurance Co. judgment entered for the plaintiff for £210. The defendants to pay to the plaintiff his general costs of the actions. The plaintiff to pay the defendants' costs exclusively occasioned by the issues on which the plaintiff failed. The respondents to pay costs of appeals to High Court.

Solicitor for the appellant, W. S. Doria.
Solicitors for the respondents, Hodgson & Finlayson.

[1]
[1837] EngR 195; 6 A. & E., 469, at p. 474.

[2]
(1894) 6 R., 67, particularly at pp. 75-76, 80.

[3]
(1897) A.C., at p. 76.

[4]
(1900) A.C., at p. 145.

[5]
(1905) 1 Ch., 365, at p. 369.

[6]
2 Chitty, 399.

[7]
12 East, 1.

[8]
L.R. 6 H.L., 83, at p. 118.

[9]
1 Ves., 98.

[10]
5 H.L.C., 185.

[11]
(1902) A.C., see p. 130.

[12]
6 A. & E., at p. 474.

[13]
5 H.L.C., at p. 213.

[14]
29 Ch. D., 459.

[15]
L.R. 19 I.A., 203.

[16]
3 App. Cas., at p. 131.

[17]
(1910) 1 Ch., 777, at pp. 786 et seq.

[18]
(1909) 1 K.B., 591, at p. 600.

[19]
L.R. 2 H.L., 43, at p. 57.

[20]
[1836] EngR 64; 1 M. & W., 402, at p. 406.

[21]
[1858] EngR 187; 3 C.B. (N.S.), 769, at p. 777.

[22]
2 Co., 171, at p. 173.

[23]
(1910) 1 Ch., 777.

[24]
7 Ch. App., 259, at pp. 268 et seqq.

[25]
(1911) A.C., 217, at p. 239.

[26]
[1837] EngR 195; 6 A. & E., 469.

[27]
L.R. 19 I.A., 203.

[28]
L.R. 19 I.A., at p. 215.

[29]
3 Macq., 827, at p. 829.

[30]
L.R. 10 C.P., 307.

[31]
19 Q.B.D., 68, at p. 70.

[32]
L.R. 19 I.A., at p. 217.

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