INGLIS AND ANOR V. COMMONWEALTH TRADING BANK OF AUSTRALIA
High Court of Australia
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIANZ®
INGLIS AND ANOR.
COMMONWEALTH TRADING BANK OF
"AUSTRALIA
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eas
LIGIN A.
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
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INGLIS AND ANOR.
COMMONWEALTH TRADING BANK OF AUSTRALIA
ORDER
Summons dismissed. Plaintiffs to pay the defendant's
costs.
INGLIS AND ANOR.
COMMONWEALTH TRADING BANK OF AUSTRALIA
JUDGMENT BARWICK C.J.
(ORAL)
CHAMBERS
INGLIS AND ANOR.
COMMONWEALTH TRADING BANK OF AUSTRALIA
The applicants' complaint, out of which this
application has stemmed, is that the bank has made entries
in its accounts which the applicants desire to challenge,
Indeed, the applicants assert that the entries ought not to
have been made, But the applicants neither seek to redeem -
indeed, the applicants assert that they do not propose to
redeem, nor are they seeking in this action any relief against
the mortgagee as such.
What they are endeavouring to do is to assert that
nothing is due under the mortgage, for several reasons, one
of which is that they hope to recover so much in damages for
the causes of action asserted in the pleadings that any sum
properly due under the mortgage will be more than outweighed.
None of these considerations seem to me to form
any warrant for my exercising any power I might have to order
an account in this action at this stage. I have heard nothing
from the applicants, nor can I see any reason why I should, in
this action, at this stage, make an order against the defendant
bank for the taking of an account as asked and upon the basis
asked by the applicants - or for that matter, at all.
I refuse the application for an interlocutory
injunction as asked for in paragraph 4 of the summons and
the orders set out in paragraphs 5 and 6. These paragraphs
need no comment. In my opinion the application is entirely
misconceived.
I therefore dismiss the summons.