THE VARAWA CASE.
I:.;-:->.;■'— ;,.».."... .■•'.'■' |- ; ; " t '-} : By Telesra-ph—Press Association—Copyright. ; '! Melbourne, October.4; : . ..".The judgment in the case Varawa .v.? ' Howard' Smith ■'■■ Company,- in which the i plaintiff was awarded" £5000.. damages and costs, has been set.aside by the-Full I Coiirt.' ' . •■ '".•■;. ■;'..'■;■
..The above-case, in whiok tet'or Fedo■rovitch ;, Varawa, . a Russian subject) .claimed damages for' false imprisonment, at Sydney, in January, .1905, from the' Howard Smith Company, was :.heard before -Mr'. 'Justice, A'Beckett and of'twelve, in the First Civil Court. On January 21, .1905, • the following negotiations for the sale' of the steamer Pere-' griney. the:;. defendant. company.; instituted proceedings against:Varawa" for breach of agreement, and he'was arrested when leavNew South :VYales,;and held in Darlings hurst Gaol, oh".a writ of capias,.for 11 days till security.,for'i.i&AOO was forthcoming..;: On this arrest,' ah. action was successfully brought against the' Howard Smith; Company. The defendants denied liability, or that Varawa had any cause of aotion. :;-, '• ..■,■".■.■ ,-.:-./
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7
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