OF JUDGMENTS OF WINDWARD ISLANDS COURT OF APPEAL EDITED BY SIR W. H. GREAVES, KT., B. A., Oxon. 1905. PREFACE. This volume contains the written judgments of the Windward Islands Court of Appeal which were delivered to the Registrars of the several Courts to be filed. When the Court was first established many appeals were heard, particularly in St. Lucia; but as no written judgments were delivered, only the bare terms of the orders made being recorded on the minutes, such appeals are not included. Copies of the judgments contained in this volume were obtained for me by Sir F. M. Hodgson, K.C.M.G., and Sir R. B. Llewelyn, K.C.M.G., and I am deeply grateful to their Excellencies for having so kindly and readily assisted me. The facts of the several cases must be gathered from the judginents. It was practically impossible to obtain copies of the cases stated for the Court. No selection has been made, but all the cases in which written judgments were delivered are included. Some of these cases possess but little attraction for the legal practitioner. I venture to think, however, that the volume will prove useful to the profession, and will save many a wearisome hunt for precedents. Only one hundred copies have been printed, and the cost thereof is only the actual cost of printing and binding. My thanks are due to Mr. Gale, the owner of the Advocate Press, for having so readily co-operated with me in an undertaking in which the risk, from a commercial point of view, has been assumed by him. Barbados, W. H. GREAVES. October, 1905. |