EMS Quarries Pty Limited v Beaumont [2001] NSWSC 355

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : EMS Quarries Pty Limited v Beaumont [2001] NSWSC 355 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1517 of 2001 HEARING DATE(S) : 30 March 2001 and 2 April 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 10 May 2001

PARTIES : EMS Quarries Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Roy Richard Beaumont (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Windeyer J at 1

COUNSEL : Mr J Glissan QC with him Mr M Condon (Plaintiff) J Trebeck (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Hawthorn Cuppaidge & Badgery (Plaintiff) Kreutzer & Simpson (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : LANDLORD AND TENANT - purported termination for breach of covenants to pay royalties and to work mine - construction of royalty clause - whether failure to comply with notice demanding excessive sums for royalties amounted to repudiation - whether covenant to work mine required continuous working when uneconomic LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 s120a(3); s129 Australian Safeway Stores Pty Limited v Toorak Village Development Pty Ltd [1974] VR 268 Bunbury Foods Pty Limited v National Bank of Australasia Limited (1983-84) 153 CLR 491 Campbell v Commercial Banking Co of Sydney Limited (1879) 2 LR (NSW) 375 Fabian v Winston (1590) Cro Eliz 209 Jarvis v Tomlinson [1856] 1 H&N 195 CASES CITED : Jegon v Vivian (1871) 6 Ch App 742 Kinsmen v Jackson (1880) 42 LT 80 Mir Brothers Project Pty Limited v 1924 Pty Limited [1980] 2 NSWLR 907 Moteks Pty Limited v Matthews Pastoral Co [1998] NSW ConvR 55-847 Tsangaris v Gaymark Investments Pty Limited (1986) 82 FLR 269 Wheatley v Westminster Brymbo Coal Company (1869) 9 LR Eq 539 DECISION : See paragaphs 29 and 30