Case of woman who sold wrong palm tree offshoots sent back to Court of Appeal

ABU DHABI // The Federal Supreme Court has sent the case of a woman ordered to pay Dh1 million to a man for selling him the wrong palm tree offshoots back to the Court of Appeal.

The defendant had received Dh240,000 by selling the man palm offshoots from the “fard abyad” type. But after six years of planting the offshoots the man complained he had been sold a type of lesser quality than he had agreed to buy.

A previous court heard he had expected a bigger revenue from the type they had agreed on and suffered a financial loss as a result.

The Court of First Instance assigned an expert to look into the damages, after which it ordered the woman to pay him Dh1 million in compensation for his financial and moral losses.

She appealed the verdict, but the Court of Appeal upheld the ruling.

So she further appealed it at the Federal Supreme Court arguing that the earlier verdicts did not specify the factors of the damage they based the compensation amounts on, which she claimed violated the law.

The Supreme Court accepted the cassation and referred the case back to appeals.