COVENT GARDEN MARKET.
tirCZSHT BIGHTS THVOI-VED. INTERESTING LAWSUIT. (Received 12 Xoon.) - LONDON, June 6. The Beecbams Pills Estates Company, Limited, have applied to the Chancery Court for an injunction to restrain the Freeman Company, Limited, from auctioning fruit on the latter's premises at Long Acre. Counsel said that the plaintiffs had the exclusive right of market under a charter of Charles 11., which they acquired from the Duke of Bedford, yet the defendants had established a rival market a hundred yards outside Covent . Garden, where they held three substantial sales within a week. It had been decided that a rival market could not be set up within seven miles of Covent Garden. Defendants asked for an adjournment. Mr. Justice Romer granted an injunction till Wednesday. • The Freeman Company is the AngloAustralian firm whicji handled the 1922 pack of Australian canned fruits. It recently imported many apples and pears and auctioned some in Long Acre. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 7
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