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of Appeal (record no. 8261) rendered on the appeal which he had lodged against the trial judgment. Dominion Ready Mix has not appealed from the Court of Appeal judgment pronounced on its appeal (record no. 8265) from the trial judgment. All the parties to the litigation are before the Court, as was the case in the two provincial Courts. The issues disputed before the Court are the same as those which were disputed in these two Courts and include, among others, the question whether, in respect of A. Bergeron & Fils Ltée, Bilodeau as well as Dominion Ready Mix Inc. should be condemned to make compensation for the damage and, in the affirmative, the question of the nature and extent of the liability of Bilodeau and Ready Mix, as between themselves. The reasons for judgment given in the Court of Appeal in support of the judgment rendered in the Bilodeau appeal, as well as in the Ready Mix appeal, are identically the same. Dismissal of Bilodeau’s appeal implied dismissal of the submissions which he could make and must have made in support of the reserve made in the Superior Court judgment, in case his submissions on the matter of his liability to Bergeron were rejected. The parties before us have made the joint record, the factums and arguments as if the two Court of Appeal judgments were but one; they were free to so conduct their case and it would be unwarranted, in my opinion, to object to the application, in the circumstances, of the rule that parties to a litigation are bound by the manner in which they conducted their case. The Century Indemnity Company and W.G. Rogers and Anna Fitzgerald[2], at p. 536; City of Verdun v. Sun Oil Company Ltd.[3], at p. 231.
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