Buzacott and Company Limited v Cyclone Pty Ltd [1920] HCA 12
High Court of Australia
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286 HIGH COURT
H.C.orA. Ricu J. I agree.
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TRUSTEES,
usw Appeal dismissed. Appellant to pay costs of —
AND AGENCY
Co. Lrp. appeal of the respondent trustee and one set
Ptaate: of costs of the opposing respondents as
ae between party and party; the respondent
trustee to take out of the estate the difference
between party and party and solicitor and
client costs and any deficiency which he fails
* to recover from the appellant.
Solicitors for the appellant, Tolhurst & Druce.
Solicitors for the respondents, Gair & Brahe; Malleson, Stewart,
Stawell & Nankivell; adBeckett & Chomley: G. Shaw.
B.L.
(HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.)
BUZACOTT & COMPANY LIMITED ' . APPELLANT;
DEFENDANT,
AND
CYCLONE PROPRIETARY LIMITED . . RESPONDENT.
Prarntirr,
ON APPEAL FROM A JUSTICE OF THE HIGH COURT.
H.C. or A, Practice—High Court—Appeal from Justice of High Court—Admission of further
1920. evidence—New trial—Terms—Rules of the High Court 1911, Part II., Sec. I.,
eo, r. 10.
Ta On an appeal to the Full Court of the High Court from the judgment of «
H Justice of that Court the appellant applied for leave to call further evidence.
Knox 0.3, The Court, being of opinion that further evidence should be taken, set aside
peat nineey. the judgment and ordered a new trial on the terms that the appellant should
pay the costs of the first trial and of the appeal.
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27 C.L.R.] OF AUSTRALIA.
Appgat from Isaacs J.
The Cyclone Proprietary Ltd., which was the owner of two
designs registered under the Designs Act 1906, viz., No. 1053 regis-
tered in respect of gates, &c., for a period of five years from 30th
August 1912, which period was subsequently extended for a further
five years, and No. 2697 registered in respect of gates for a period
of five years from 13th June 1918, brought an action in the High
Court against Buzacott & Co. Ltd. wherein the plaintiff alleged that
the defendant without the licence or authority of the plaintiff had
sold and offered and kept for sale gates to which the plaintifi's
registered designs or fraudulent or obvious imitations thereof had
been applied in infringement of the plaintiff's copyright in such
designs. The plaintiff claimed an injunction, damages or an
account of profits, and delivery up of infringing articles. One of the
defences taken was that neither of the registered designs was new
or original, but that each of them had been published and in use in
connection with (inter alia) gates which were sold to the general
public.
The action was heard by Isaacs J., who gave judgment for the
plaintiff for an injunction, having found that there had been infringe-
ment of both of the registered designs and that the defendant had
not proved prior publication of either of those designs.
From that decision the defendant appealed to the Full Court, and,
on the appeal coming on for hearing, the appellant applied for leave
to call further evidence as to prior publication.
Latham, for the appellant. The Court has jurisdiction under
rule 10 of Sec. I. of Part I. of the High Court Rules to admit further
evidence on an appeal. This is a proper case for admitti>¢ further
evidence (In re Neath Harbour Smelting and Rolling Works (1) ).
[Rion J. referred to Nash v. Rochford Rural Council (2) ).|
Weigall K.C. (with him Owen Dizon), for the respondent.
The judgment of the Court, which was delivered by Knox C.J.,
was as follows :—We wish to make it clear that we do not deal in any
(1) 2 TLR, 94 (2) (1917) 1 K.B,, 384,
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way with any ruling given by our brother /saacs at the trial, nor do
we in any way, except formally, depart from any decision of his,
I say " formally," because it is necessary to vacate his judgment in
order that there may be a new trial. In this case we think it is
eminently desirable that the new trial should take place before
our brother Zsaacs, the real object of the new trial being that he
may inform his mind by fresh evidence on a point raised before
him at the first trial and which he then had to decide on less evidence
than will be available on the new trial. We express no opinion —
whatever as to the effect of the new evidence; that is entirely a
matter for the trial Judge.
Judgment set aside. New trial granted. Order
by consent that the evidence on the former
trial be used at the new trial. Defendant to
pay the costs of the first trial and of this
appeal.
Solicitors for the appellant, Sly d& Russell, Sydney, by Hedderwick,
Fookes & Alston.
Solicitors for the respondent, Weigall & Crowther.
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