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ALLEGED TRUST.

•' SUCAR tmCATiOM. i .. j*?Ka‘Pit£ss Assocutior4 . .• ■ ’ Wellington, May 4. ' ThA Court ol ! Appeal : delivered reserved judgment in tire cape i airourn, Wright and Co'C vl Levin and Co-,, rimming., The case in ap- . oeal .wr&j .in the fom pi Questions .of • -law on argument before tiro trial; the questioTlT being whether the statement of claim disclosed causes -of; ) action. 1 The claim'was' for £& 1;&3, ’ cuafiages for loss cf profits on .and loss or. sales of sugar caused by, alleged wrongful acts of defendant'company. Tbo iacts .roIKd; worm were ;renifiais to ■.self sugar 'the sepe terras ah to discount nV the’.company; sold: to - other ‘ ■merchants." Tv had bean hold in the 1 Sugar Trust case that the acts amounted to breaches of section 4 of the Comercial; Trusts Act, 1910, and plaintiffs relied 'upon the fact that ' these refusals., to deal, were .by the! said Act rendered unlawful. The two 1 .Questions./determined', by, the . Court', were : (1) Whether there was an action at coravnpni law, 'arid (2) wlitthsf ihp statute created any private rights in plaintiffs for breach of . which they corjld sue., y.'Tjio .Contt .unanimously held that there was, a right of action at' common kw, defendant company'hav-' 1. -in«j-conspired with;■ the Colon bT S.uga td-'injure-plt£hßiff -ip,their. tra#s> i/v| ' .liak.Vfgr lucanh 1 As; to, the second 1 • /. „• r / f i ITcfaaf,ds. And Sim' held s it'r.QV' n6'!f cr'ca't'e * any i private-'rights for breach, of:’ which a rightAf .action lay.,'rSif RObfet'Rtctitj j ,-,v. this fquestion- hold:' ing that 7 seqtio.u’4 of the;.statute-hod j crodted The result ■is | that thp Court' ho|d 3 - that the state/'merit, pf'claim disclosed, a/cabse of acS :tion pc . common f law. ;.On the' appil/ ■/cation, pi Mr H. D. Bell, ,E'.C,, covri • ditionai leave? was!granted to.appeal to ,fchc Privy Council. , ; ,Vtc Jj

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11, 4 May 1914, Page 6

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ALLEGED TRUST. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11, 4 May 1914, Page 6

ALLEGED TRUST. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11, 4 May 1914, Page 6

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