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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14686223 At the hearing on 7.12.78 P.W.1, a superviser in the plaintiff}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14686223 
s credit section tendered invoices dated 1/12/77, 7/2/77, 11/2/77, 19/2/77, 1/10/76, & 5/10/76 s
igned by A.M Khan for goods supplied to the defendant. All those goods were paid for by the defendant. The witness explained in cross-examination that when a third party obtains goods on credit for a customer he should produce the customer}{
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\par P.W.2, Makesh Prasad, the salesman stated that he does not know the defendant but he knows A
.M. Khan and supplied him with goods for the defendant on the occasions mentioned in the foregoing invoices. He said that he also supplied the disputed goods to A.M. Khan for the defendant. It appears that A.M. Khan was never in possession of the defendan
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\par On several occasions, as the evidence and the written statements of defence show P.W.2 had been justified in accepting A.M. Khan as the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8672483 s agent and the latter had paid for the goods.
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\par No evidence was tendered by the defence.
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\par The learned magistrate in his judgment stated that the defendant had acquiesced in a practise where}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 by}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8672483 
 A.M. Khan ordered goods on the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8672483 s account without producing the defendant}{
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credit card and thereby had laid the ground for A.M. Khan to resort to this practice. He concluded that A.M. Khan had been held out as having the authority to do this and the defendant must accept the consequences.}{
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\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 The defendant appeals on the ground that the magistrate erred in holding that A.M. Khan had such implied authority from the defendant.
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\par Mr. Pillai argued that no evidence was tendered to show what card number the defendant had. All the invoices referred bear the number 4111066. Clearly that was the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 s account number. P.W.2 the salesman stated that the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 
s account number was produced. That eviden}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4804640 ce was not challenged by cross-}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 examination nor by}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4804640  any evidence from the defence.}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 
\par 
\par The magistrate was entitled to accept that the number produced to the salesman, P.W.2 was the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 
s number. In any event the defendant admits in his pleading that it was his account which was used throughout.
\par 
\par Mr. Pillai for the defendant further submitted that the evidence did not support a finding that A.M. Khan had been held out as the agent of the defendant. He submitted that the notification of A.M. Khan}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 s purchases did not place him in the category of an agent. He argued that if A notifies B}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 s act purportedly done on A}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3017572 s behalf that does not make B the agent of A. With }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 
respect to Mr. Pillai I do not regard the circumstances as amounting to the notification of an act. The law in such circumstances is set out in two cases which appear in 171 English Reports, }{
\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194\charrsid4804640 Todd v. Robinson}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 , (1825) at p.}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4804640  }{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 999 and }{\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194\charrsid4804640 Gilman v. Robinson}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194  1825 at p.}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4804640  }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 1350. Those cases are interesting in that the defendant in each case was obviously the same and they were heard on February 26}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16535545 th}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194  and February 22}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16535545 nd}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 
 respectively by differently constituted courts and the defendant was represented by different counsel. The}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9916062  facts in each case were}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2968194 
 identical. }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9916062 The defendant, a shop-keeper in Driffield, Yorkshire}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4804640  employed one womac}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9916062  to order goods for him from wholesalers in London. In the first case six orders were delivered and paid for by the defendant, in the second case there were several such orders.}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12325681 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9916062 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15616750 In each case the agent, ordered goods in the name of the defendant, which the defendant had not asked for. They were delivered to Womac for the defendant and Womac fraudulently used them for 
his own purposes. When invoiced for the goods the defendant denied liability but judgment was given against him in each case. The trials were with jury and in the first case Abbott Ld.C.J summed up to the jury as follows:}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16535545  }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15616750 -}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9916062 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16535545 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid8025774 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774\charrsid12325681 "}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 
The liability of the defendant
 depends on whether he has by his own acts and conduct constituted Womac his general agent to order goods. The authority actually given in each particular instance to Womac can only be known to the defendant himself; the plaintiffs can only look to the ap
p
earances held out by him; and it is for you to say whether the defendant by his own act and conduct had induced the plaintiffs to believe that Womac was his agent for the purpose of ordering these goods. If you think he has authorised the plaintiffs to tr
eat Womac as his agent, then the defendant is answerable notwithstanding he may in this particular instance have given Womac no such instructions.}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774\charrsid12325681 "}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3670560 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid8025774 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5013218 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 The jury found for the plaintiff}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16535545 s}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 .
\par 
\par It is apparent from that direction that the issue of holding out Womac as an agent was one of fact. Had there not been sufficient to justify a jury arriving at a finding the Court would have withdrawn the case from them.
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15939059 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15939059 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 In the second case Best C.J. said during the hearing:-}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5013218 
\par 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid5013218 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774\charrsid12325681 "}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 
There is abundant evidence to go to the jury. I a
gree that one transaction is not enough to raise the presumption of general authority, but several instances are, I think, sufficient. This case cannot be distinguished from the cases of master and servant, unless the jury should be satisfied that Womac}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 s 
authority was terminated at the end of each transaction. One of two innocent persons must suffer for the fraud of a third. The defendant should have notified that his authority only applied to the particular transaction; }{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2708350 and if he held out the part as his agent, and the seller trusted h}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2653214 i}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2708350 
m upon that, the defendant is the one of the two innocent persons who ought to suffer.}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774\charrsid12325681 "}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8025774 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid11215230 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5013218 
\par }{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 The jury found for the plaintiffs.
\par 
\par Those two cases are on all fours with the instant case. If anything the instant case may be a littl
e stronger in that the goods ordered by A.M. Khan and paid for by the defendant were motor parts; the defendant as a transporter no doubt needs motor parts from time to time. The goods in dispute were motor parts supplied by the same department as had sup
plied the previous orders. As Best C.J. said, one transaction alone would not be sufficient to lead the plaintiffs to believe that A.M. Khan was the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 s agent, but several such transactions are enough to raise that presumption. If A.M. Khan, has ind
eed acted fraudulently then either the plaintiffs or the defendants have to suffer for that fraud. It is apparent that there is sufficient evidence to presume that the defendant by his own conduct could have led the plaintiffs to believe that A.M. Khan wa
s his agent.
\par 
\par The approach of the magistrate was correct in law in admitting and considering that evidence. Upon the evidence so admitted he found as a fact that A.M. Khan was the defendant}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 s agent. In my view he was justified in so finding.
\par 
\par The appeal is dismissed.
\par 
\par Judgment in favour of the plaintiff is confirmed. The defendant will pay the plaintiff}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1669257 '}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 s cost of this appeal.
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid11215230 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid9073651 {\b\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230\charrsid9073651 (Sgd.) J.T. Williams
\par JUDGE
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid11215230 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230 
\par LAUTOKA
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12325681 {\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9073651 12th}{\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11215230  OCTOBER, 1979.}{
\fs24\cf0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3670560\charrsid12325681 
\par }}