the cross-claimants contracted to acquire from a third party an option to purchase a block of subdivisible land
one of the plaintiffs (also a cross-defendant), the agent acting for the vendor on the sale, applied pressure to the cross-claimants to allow him and persons associated with him to take an interest in the land to be purchased and to acquire three of the six lots into which the land was proposed to be subdivided
there was no evidence that this conduct of the first plaintiff/first cross defendant in privately dealing with the purchasers was disclosed to the vendor, for whom he was acting as agent
Case Details
Citation[2018] NSWSC 1667
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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