JURY’S £98,550 AWARD
MOTOR PATENT DISPUTE COSTLY ENGLISH LITIGATION. ESTIMATED Cl 5,000 IN FEES. . CASE LASTS FOURTEEN DAYS. (United Press Association —By Electrlo Telegraph ..lopyrighu.) Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Nov. 7. A jury of the King’s Bench awarded £98,550 damages to-day against the Austin Motor Company in an action relating to a motor-car. with sunshine roof patent, after a hearing lasting for IF days and involving total costs estimated at £15,000. The Mechanical General inventions Company and Edouard Lehwess sued Sir Herbert Austin and* the Austin Motor Company for allegedly using confidential information connected with their sunshine roof design, and in order, to obtain the patent themselves committed a
breach of agreement relating thereto. The jury found that there had been a breach of agreement.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 8 November 1933, Page 9
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126JURY’S £98,550 AWARD Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 8 November 1933, Page 9
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