WORTHLESS SHARES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 5

WORTHLESS SHARES

MORE HOOLEY TRANSACTIONS. £50,000 DAMAGES. (Received Last Night, 5:5 o'clock.) LONDON, June 30. Before the King's Bench Division, Mrs Eleanor Curtis, executrix of the father of the late R. Master, a retired civil servant, sued Horatio Bottomley for £57,835, which she alleged he obtained by selling deceased worthless shares. Defendant denied the misrepresentation. t A verdict was given for plaintiff' for £50,000 damages. A stay of execution was granted on condition that the full amount was paid into Court within a week. The evidence showed that Master met Bottomley through the latter writing and saying that he wished to help those who had lost money previously in the Bottomley Companies. Master ]pst £90,000 in share dealings with Hooley and Bottomley in connection with investments in the' John Bull Investment, and Trust -Agency,. Carter's, Duplead's, and other Companies, the whole of the shares in which were practically j worthless. . Hooley compromised with Mrs Curtis in an action brought against him. Bottomley declined to enter the witness box. Counsel for the plaintiff stated that Bottomley had "sucked a poor old deaf and infirm man dry" in five months. Hooley and Bottomley had conspired together, and had shared the plunder.