AN AFRICAN COMPANY
A CONSPIRACY CHARGE. COSTLY LITIGATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, at 8.10 a.m.) After a hearing lasting thirty-three days, involving legal expenses amounting to £7O,OCX), the Court of King’s Bench awarded Isidore Wyler and the Tbo and Nyassaland Corporation £62,472 damages against Lewis and Marks and other members of the Corporation (except Sir Robert Edgecumbe), for alleged conspiracy, thus causing the loss of concessions estimated to be worth a quarter of a million. Weatherly, another member of the Corporation, was earlier dismissed from the case. An appeal has been entered.
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Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 6
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97AN AFRICAN COMPANY Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 6
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