IS SELLASSIE STILL EMPEROR?
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Question that English Court Must Decide PENDING LEGAL ACTION
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(Received 22, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. oi. Is Haili Sellassie still Emperoer ot Abyssinia or merely a royal refugee from a conquered country? Is he wealthy or penniless? These questions may be decided by the High Court as the result of a writ taken out on November 19 by an American, Leo Chertok, who took a prominent part in the plan to lease a largo part of Abyssinia to a group of international financiers 10 years ago. Mr Chertok is suing Haili Sellassie for 3?23,000 for cash advanced and cornmission. Sellassie is faced with the alternative of refusin'g to defend the action, whereby Mr Chertok "will get judgment by defauit, or entering an appearance through- a solicitor and defending the action. According to * EDglish law no Court has jurisdiction over . a sovereign. If, , therefore, Sellassie decides to make this a preliminary issue, it will be left to the Court to decide whetkcr Mr Chertok can continue with the claim.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 7
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177IS SELLASSIE STILL EMPEROR? Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 7
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