The Soap Trust.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 19 July 1907, Page 2

The Soap Trust.

bug libel AiqnoN; (Per Viat«l Frew A«eociat4<ra.) „. : : LONDON, July 19. . W H, Lever, head of the firm of Messrs Lever Brothers, soap rnanufftcfeErert, of Port sWliffes recent]* instituted the prosecution of the Daily Mail «nd ; the fretting New* lor JJbel in domwction with the late Soap The prosecution declared that these attacks on^ the Tru»t had mm* huu in a^ewi «efcs * %*m of £40,. 000 on sales alone, while two million* worth of £iq preference shares of the ton h«4 declined by £1 each, besides other losses on ordinary shares and. with regard to goodwill •Hie Daily-Mail a^d tfie Daily Mirror witl)fTr<»r their impuUtioni agwmstr Messrs Lerer, and the aotions were settledl for £50,000 damages The damages awarded are exclusive of taxed cost*. '