LAWYERS IN CLOVER.

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1922, Page 8

LAWYERS IN CLOVER.

SYDNEY “WOOL TOPS’’ CASE. SYDNEY. June 3. The “Wool Tops’’ case (as cabled on May 21) is dragging along. Much technical evidence is being sifted by a great array of legal talent on each side, and the case will provide a lengthy and expensive forensic, battle. The case is one in which the Commonwealth and the Central Wool Committee are proceeding against the Colonial Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd. The plaint ill's’ claims is for money allegedly due by the defendant company as license fees for allowing the company to seel wdol-tops to foreign countries. Two hundred and fifty thousand is claimed as damages for breach of agreement, and for £282,000 paid by plaintiffs conditional upon such release. A cross action is indicated involving about £1,000,000, in which the defendant company alleges the Commonwealth Government to be guilty of breaches of agreement in refusing to consent to any further sales of wool-tops except on conditions which give the Government a greater share of profits from the company’s opera- , tions than the Company gets itself.