NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Ellis v Marshall [2006] NSWSC 448
HEARING DATE(S) : 11 May 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 11 May 2006
JURISDICTION : Equity
JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 05/11/2006
DECISION : Loan proved.
CATCHWORDS : EVIDENCE - onus of proof of a payment of money being a loan - EVIDENCE - transaction involving a deceased person - standard of proof - relevance of presenting available corroborative evidence - MORTGAGES - inference of mortgage arising from deposit of title deeds - relevance of actual agreement as to purpose of deposit - EVIDENCE - whether Jones v Dunkel inference to be drawn when lawyer fails to give evidence
LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act 1969
Bank of New South Wales v O'Connor (1889) 14 App Cas 273 Black Uhlans Inc v NSW Crime Commission [2002] NSWSC 1060; (2002) 12 BPR 22,421 Coshott v Sakic (1998) 44 NSWLR 667 Heydon v Perpetual Executors Trustees and Agency Company (WA) Limited (1930) 45 CLR 111 CASES CITED : Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 Plunkett v Bull (1915) 19 CLR 544 Shaw v Foster (1872) 5 Eng & Ir App 321 Re Wallis & Simmonds (Builders) Limited [1974] 1 All ER 561 Westpac Banking Corporation v Cronin (1990) 6 BPR [13,105]
PARTIES : Susan Vaughan Ellis (as Executrix of the Estate of the Late Sheelagh Robertson) - Plaintiff Janette Marshall (as Executrix of the Estate of the Late Patricia Marie Miles) - Defendant
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3719/05
COUNSEL : G Rundle - Plaintiff B Washington; J Lo Schiavo - Defendant
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