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of contractors who
bankruptcy.
wvere
compelled to go into
Each side attached the blame.
of the failure of the works to the other, each
had
recourse
to
litigation
and
complicated filed by
claims and counter claims were
both simultaneously question became at
so that the whole
once involved in a
maze of technicalities in which the
about u several months came to a
· Supreme Court after groping about- Chelplessly for complete stand still. Sometime before this, I had advised the learned Judges,
always pleased to consult me in
who are
cases
of the Rind, to refer the matter to
the joint arbitration of Colonel oMoggridge, Commanding Royal Engineer at this..... station, and Major Burton RE, both.
engineers of high professional repute, and in the enjoyment of the amplest leisure to devote to such a task. This advice however
was not followed the judges preferring to appeal direatly to myself, both Sir John Imale and Mr Justice Inowden asserting that unless I took the case in hand, it
- must drag on for years in Court and that the whole of the #70.000 under
litigation must inevitably and by being
swallowed up by
up by the
lawyers
on both
sides leaving nothing for their unfortunate clients. Under the circumstances it.
appeared to me a
Lordships,
as
duty
to assist their
I had often done before, and
accordingly I accepted the charge explaining
to them at the outset that.
my investigation