EXPENSIVE JUSTICE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14052, 25 May 1911, Page 11

EXPENSIVE JUSTICE.

A case which lasted fifty-five days ended in the Official Referee's court, London, recently, when .Mr Edward Pollock awarded Mr H. Cruse, of the Cruse Controllable Superheater Company, Salford, £3,535 damages, with cost's, against Messrs Willans and Robinson, engineers, of Rugby, for breach of contract; Theso damages are little more than one-sixth of tho costs of the case, which amount to £20,000, and include the following items: — Counsel's fees, £7000; solicitors and witnesses, £11,500; shorthand notes, £1400. The hearin.; of tho case was begun at Manchester in October last, and was transferred to London after a few days. As many as sixty witnesses were called, and they were asked 26,252 questions. "I shall not compare myself to Gibbon on the shores of Lake Geneva," said Mr Pollock, with a sigh of relief, at the end of the case, "but I would rather point to Dore's illustration of the Wandering Jew, in which the wanderer, with a smile of satisfaction and relief, is taking off tho boots in which he wandered about tho earth."