The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal as incompetent and lacking any utility, where the appellant conceded that neither the declaration nor the injunction sought would serve any purpose, and that the question posed to the trial judge was not an appropriate question for the Court to answer. The Court expressly declined to rule on the construction of the contractual provisions that had been debated before Santow J.
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