SIR STUART SAMUEL, M.P.
SETTLEMENT REGARDING LITIGATION. (By Telegraph,— Press Association,— Copyright.) (Received March 24. 9 a.m.) LONDON. 23rd March: The whole of the litigation in which Sir Stuart Samuel, M.P., was concerned has been settled. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. [In the King's Bench Division of the High Court last month a man named Bird, as a common informer, claimed £13.000 and costs against Sir Stuart Samuel, that amount _ representing the aggregate penalties incurred by Sit" Stuart for voting in the House of Commons while his firm was the contractor for the supply of silver to the India Office. My. Justice Rowlatt. under a statute of the year 1801,_ awarded £500 for each of twenty-six votes, but granted a stay of execution pending an appeal.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 7
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