REMARKABLE CASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1180, 1 December 1924, Page 6

REMARKABLE CASE.

CLAIM AGAINST BANK. ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL. LONDON, Nov. 28. In tho case in which Charles Ernest Robinson, bookmaker, is claiming £125,000, the balance of a sum of £150,000, from tho Midland Bank, as money alleged to have been received by defendants for his use, or alternatively as damages for alleged' negligence, Sir John Simon said that ttiis was the first time in tho history of the law that a man had had the hardihood to come to Court and openly claim a stupendous sum which was proved to ho tho result of blackmailing. The jury had an opportunity to teach the plaintiff that it would be the last time. Lord Halsbury contended that tho cheque w-as specially endorsed to Robinson. He said that Hobbs was Robinson’s agent. The chequo became Robinson’s property the moment it went into the hands of Hobbs. Tho evidence of the solicitor Waters exploded the conspiracy allegations for “Mr A” never complained to him that ho had been blackmailed. It was an insult to the jury to put into the box Now-ton, a man bought for £3OOO, to come and support tbo bank’s story. The bank’s defence was mudslinging. Counsel denied that a share-out had occurred. —Reuter.