Opinion—There is no dispute over the contract which is a-fact. The plaintiff has produced proof to show that the price of the said goods was factually paid to the Hongkong Shanghai Bank which fact this Court believes to be true. Now the point this Court has to deal is the question raised by the defendant, id the plaintiff fail to notify the defendants of the'arrival of the goods in onder to enable the defendants to take delivery thereof? Assuming this to be the truth: whether the plaintiff in the eyes of the Inw, has breached' the contract and thereby defendants. did not have to apply for delivery.
According to our law when the: parties have once entered a lawful contract, their private rights and obligation have thus become established and they are bound by the terms or conditions thereof.. Therefore unless the other party consents, or has committed a breach of the contract, giving rise to 2 ground for dissolution of the contract, one party. alone cannot evade the obligations by.which he is bound under the contract,
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