DENNISON J. The plaintiff's claim is for the return of a lorry, number AD. 20, or its value assessed at £1,060; also the sum of £800 damages for unlawful seizure and detention of the lorry by the defendants.
The defendants stated they were entitled to possession of the vehicle because the plaintiff had failed to pay the instalments due under clause 10 of a written hire-purchase agreement dated April 10, 1952, and admitted in this case in evidence.. In addition the defendants counterclaimed against the plaintiff in two sums; the sum of £261 being the price or value of tyres supplied on sale to the plaintiffs and, the sum of £119 15s. 6d. Being amounts paid by the defendants for the repair of the vehicle and which it is alleged the plaintiff is due to , repay by reason of clause 6 of the agreement. The total is £380 15s. 6d. No reply was filed to this counterclaim and Mr. Lassey at an early stage asked that judgment should be given for the defendants on the counterclaim. However as the e…