Delict: claim for damages consisting of pure economic loss: claim against first respondent based on negligent administrative omissions: omissions not wrongful: claim correctly dismissed: claim against second respondent based on fraud: circumstances justified overturning of trial court’s findings of credibility: fraud established on balance of probabilities: second respondent declared liable.
Practice: test for receiving further evidence on appeal: no reasonably sufficient explanation for failure to present evidence in trial court: proposed evidence disputed on substantial grounds and not weighty or material.
Prescription: previous proceedings not a step in the enforcement of payment of the same debt: part of claim for payment of damages arising from continuous wrong prescribed.
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