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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