Tuck Construction Limited v Waipa County - [1967] NZLR 987

Local government — Local authorities generally — Contract — Plea of invalidity — Noncompliance with formalities — Whether mandatory — Purported delegation — Effect of Council resolutions — Whether claim on basis of quantum meruit — Counties Act 1956, s. 167 — Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959, ss. 3, 4

Practice — Questions of law before trial — Plaintiff acknowledges that adverse decision on points of law would entitle defendant to judgment — Memorandum by Judge of basis on which that question to be tried — Code of Civil Procedure, R. 154.