Lord Blanesburgh:-

Before proceeding to define with particularity the issue which on this appeal their Lordships must determine, it may be well for clearness sake to set forth, as succinctly as possible, the somewhat involved story which leads up to it. All the parties live in Barbados. The appellant is a merchant there : the respondent Walcott a barrister-at-law, and the respondent Hutchinson a solicitor, both practising in the island. The respondent Taylor is a commercial agent who was for some time in the employment of the appellant.

For many years prior to 1925 the appellant had acted as agent on commission for a Newfoundland firm of Monroe and Company, and in later years for that firm's successors-in-business, the Monroe Export Company, Ltd. The appellant's agency was concerned mainly with the sale on commission of fish consigned by the Monroes to him in Barbados, and with the purchase in the island, also on commission, of molasses on their account.

In 1925 disputes arose between the Monroe Company and appellant with reference to his transactions, and in March 1925, the Company instituted against him in the Barbados Chancery Court a suit claiming full accounts on allegations, int