RIVAL FRUIT MARKETS

Northern Advocate, 19 June 1926, Page 4

RIVAL FRUIT MARKETS

INTERIM INJUNCTION GItANTED* (Received 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, June IS. The Court of Chancery granted' Beecham’s Estates and Pills Ltd an interim injunction pending the" trial of an action restraining Freemans: from holding fruit auctions.I—A. 1 —A. and N.Z. ” ' :

The firm of Beecham’s Estates and Pills, Limited, applied to the Chancery - Court for an injunction to restrainthe Freeman Company, Limited, fromselling fruit by auction on the latter’spremises -in Long Acre, London. Counsel for plaintiffs said they had theexclusive right to the .market under acharter of the reign of Charles 11.,. which they had acquired from theDuke of Bedford. In spite of this defendants had established a rival' market 100yds outside Cbvent Garden, where they held three substantial sales within a week. It had been decided' that a rival market could not be sef up within seven miles of Covent Garden. Defendants asked for an adjournment. Mr Justice Homer granted an injunction until Wednesday. The Freeman Company is an AnglqAustralian linn which handled the 1022 pack of Australian tinned fruits. It recently imported niany apples and pears and sold them by auction, somg ■ in Long Acre. ‘ &