D'Arling One Pty Ltd v Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza Pty Limited [2009] NSWSC 570

D'Arling One Pty Ltd v Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza Pty Limited [2009] NSWSC 570

The application for interlocutory relief failed because damages were an adequate and suitable remedy: the defendant had agreed to purchase the plaintiff's business for $250,000, and damages for failure to purchase the business were crystallised in that agreed amount.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
12 June 2009
Procedural Posture
Application for Interlocutory Injunction / Ex Tempore Judgment
Outcome
Application dismissed with costs
Legal Topics
['interlocutory Injunctions' 'specific Performance' 'sale of Business' 'franchise Agreement' 'adequacy of Damages']

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Procedural Posture

Application for Interlocutory Injunction / Ex Tempore Judgment

  1. 1 ['Whether the plaintiff should be granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant from acting upon its purported termination of the franchise agreement.' "Whether damages were an adequate remedy for the defendant's alleged breach."]

Ratio Decidendi

The application for interlocutory relief failed because damages were an adequate and suitable remedy: the defendant had agreed to purchase the plaintiff's business for $250,000, and damages for failure to purchase the business were crystallised in that agreed amount.

Court Disposition

Application dismissed with costs

Orders

  • ["The plaintiff is to pay the defendant's costs."]