SWEEP PRIZE SYNDICATE

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 January 1934, Page 5

SWEEP PRIZE SYNDICATE

£30,000 IN DISPUTE.

LONDON, November 28-

The Master of the High Court, Dublin, yesterday granted an order for the discovery of documents, and a cross-order for discovery, in a lawsuit relating to a ticket which drew Hyperion in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake on this year’s Derby. The plaintiffs are James Edward Murphy, of Maiden-lane, Strand, London, Mrs Alice Mary Murphy, and others against Miss Nellie Thompson, of Broad Street, Tottenham, and others.

Plaintiffs maintain they are entitled to half of the prize money of £30,000, while respondents claim that every one of the ten persons whose names appear as parties in the action is entitled to one-tenth, or, in other word's, that the plaintiffs, four in number, should get four-tenths, and respondents, -six in number, should get sixtenths.

Mrs Alice Murphy also claims the seller’s prize of £l,OOO, but respondents say that it was agreed to put this sum in the pool for proportionate division.

The Master of the High Court, in granting the orders, observed that all the parties lived in London and, he supposed, were all friends. Counsel: They were all friends, and are all relations.