AN OPAL LAW SUIT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 256, 29 April 1912, Page 5

AN OPAL LAW SUIT

A TANGLED STORY. ] London, April 25. In the case of Bradley and Cohn (Ltd) V. Ramsay and Co., an action to recover possession of a parcel of opals fa*) damages for their detention, the Court of Appeal upheld Mr. Justice Phillimore's decision. The plaintiffs are shipping merchants, carrying on business in London and Australia. In 1008 they received from a firm in Sydney a parcel of black opals for exhibition at Shepherd's Rush Exhibition. A jeweller, Isadore Braun, induced plaintiffs to let him have the stones on approbation. He refused to give £750, their stated value, but offered £3OO. The offer was communicated to the Australian owner, but before the reply was received Braun had sold the stones to defendants for £3OO. He then went bankrupt, and as defendants would not restore the stones the plaintiffs brought, an action. Judgment had been previously obtained by plaintiffs against Braun for £750. The Judge held that the_ procedure in the plaintiffs' action against Braun debarred the plaintiffs from recovering in the action against Ramsay and Company.