The Court of Appeal held that an offer of compromise addressed jointly to multiple parties whose causes of action are several is not capable of individual acceptance and therefore cannot ground an order for indemnity costs. The trial judge's order for indemnity costs based on the unaccepted offer was set aside as founded on a wrong principle. The Court substituted party-and-party costs orders, apportioning costs of the second trial to the first appellant alone.
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