ALLEGED FRAUD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1910, Page 7

ALLEGED FRAUD.

A CONVICTION QUASHED. DRESDEN CHINA CASE. COURT OF APPEAL DECISION. By Telegraph.— Pres* Association.— Copyright. (Received May 13, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 12th May. The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction of Arthur Ellis, a dealer in old china, who was found guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation, and from whom the executors of Charles Dickins, of Dickins and Jones, Ltd., a well-known, firm of Regent-street, obtained in May last judgment for £10,346 damages. [Ellis is a Bond-street dealer, and the late Mr. Dickins was an octogenarian and an ardent collector of old Dresden china. It is stated that Ellis sold thousands of pounds' worth of china- to Dickins, and that the greater part of it was of very little value. Following Elli&'s conviction, the executors of Mr. Dickins sued Messrs Christie, Manson,. and Woods, the well-known auctioneering firm, for negligence in allowing spurious articles to appear on a catalogue of a sale- of old china, some of which Mr. Dickins purchased. The jury found that there had been negligence on the part of Messrs Christie, Manson, and Woods in the preparation of the sale catalogue, but that plaintiffs had not proved monetary loss. Judgment was for defendant, with costs. Plaintiffs were allowed costs on the negligence issue.]