LONDON FRUIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 7

LONDON FRUIT.

IMPORTANT LAWSUIT.

LONDON, June 20. The Chancery Court has granted Beecham's Estates and Pills, Ltd., an interim injunction pending the trial of the ' action in which the company seeks an in- I junction restraining the Freeman Company, Ltd., from holding auction sales of fruit on the latters premises in Long Acre, London.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) j The firm of Beecham's Estates and Pills, Ltd., applied to the Chancery Court : early this month for an injunction to i restrain the Freeman Company, Limited, from selling fruit by action on the lat- i ter's premises in Long Acre, London, j Counsel for plaintiffs said they had the i exclusive right to the market under a ! charter of the reign of Charles 11., which ! they had acquired from the Duke of Bed- ' ford. In spite of this defendants, they ! said, had established a rival market i 100 yards outside Covent Garden, where ! they held three substantial sales a week. It had been decided that a rival market could not be eet up within seven miles of Covent Garden. The Freeman Company is an Anglo-Australian firm which handled the 1922 pack of Australian tinned fruits. It recently imported many apples and pears and sold them by , auction, some in Long Acre. I