LAW CASE .IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10

LAW CASE .IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

Seven huge volumes of evidence, a large book of maps, and several plans, which were spread out oh the tables and across the seats, were handed to each of the five judges in the House of Lords at a recent .sitting. .. . This mass of documents represented the work involved in the record litigation, which began on 20th October, 1.915, between the Amalgamted Properties of Rhodesia (1913), Ltd., and the Globe and Phoenix Gold Mining Company," Ltd. Thp'former maintain that the latter are bound to account fo them for one-hall' of the proceeds of gold oxtracted since 17th June, 1912, from a piece of land in Southern Rhodesia.

The Globe Company, however, maintain that they are entitled to all the proceeds without any sycli liability, and the lower courts have endorsed that view.

The litigation is stated to have already cost well over £150,000. A 45----days5 speech of Mr. Upjohn, K.C., for the Globe Company, was described bj' Sir. Justice , Eve, in the Chancery Division, as one that would remain a record in the annals of the Bar. ■