9 May 1989
CASTLESPRING ENTERPRISES LTD v. CORE RESOURCE (HK) LTD
- Citation
- CASTLESPRING ENTERPRISES LTD v. CORE RESOURCE (HK) LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA4876/1987
On the objective construction of the Purchase Order and Order Confirmation together with surrounding circumstances (including explicit language 'for and on behalf of' and evidence that Defendant informed Plaintiff it was acting as buying agent and Plaintiff knew the overseas buyer), Defendant did not assume personal liability; accordingly Plaintiff's claim against Defendant fails. Further, pre-contractual misrepresentations by Plaintiff limited recoverable losses by remoteness principles, though loss of profit remained recoverable; counterclaim failed for lack of provable loss.