Queensland Judgments
Pacific Century Production P/L v Tysoe & Anor t/a Lyndee Transport
[2005] QCA 189 (04/9451) Brisb McPherson JA Williams JA Jerrard JA 3/06/2005
Catchwords
APPEAL AND NEW TRIAL – APPEAL – GENERAL PRINCIPLES – INTERFERENCE WITH JUDGE’S FINDING OF FACT - FUNCTION OF APPELLATE COURT – WHERE FINDINGS CLEARLY WRONG – GENERALLY – where appellant constructed roads on a farm property owned by respondent – respondent awarded rectification costs by District Court judge for negligently constructed roads – whether the learned trial judge erred in calculating the cost of rectification over a greater distance of road than in fact constructed by the appellant
CONTRACTS – BUILDING, ENGINEERING AND RELATED CONTRACTS – REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT – DAMAGES – where two options available to rectify the road – whether the learned trial judge erred in allowing the respondent to recover on the augmentation/reconstruction option rather than the augmentation option
