Goodyear Try to Stop Alleged Price-cutting
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A MOTION by the Goodyear Tyre and rA Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., Wolverhampton, for an interlocutory injunction restraining Horace Irving Mendelsohn (Irving's Stores). Derby Street, Bolton. from selling goods manufactured by the ,plaintiffs at prices other than those -they had prescribed was adjourned for three weeks by Mr. Justice Danckwerts in the Chancery Division on Tuesday.
Mr. Guy Aldous, Q.C., for the plaintiffs, said the motion was to restrain breaches of the Restrictive Practices Act. If a condition were attached on the sale of goods it " ran with the goods" against retailers who bought them.
Counsel said that only Mr. Mendelsohn was sued, but his counsel had intimated that a number of other persons or companies was concerned, and not Mr. Mendelsohn. " We think we have sued the right person, but we do not want any difficulties, so I would ask for leave to add parties if necasary," added Mr. Aldous.
Mr. Douglas Falconer: for Mr. Mendelsohn, said a number of incidents in different parts of the country was alleged, and these would take some time to investigate.
Directing that the motion stand over three weeks, his Lordship gave the plaintiffs leave to amend their writ and add parties.
EARNINGS FIGURES "NOT ABOVE REPROACH"
A SUGGESTION that figures of earnrisings put before the Transport Tribunal were not above reproach was made on Tuesday by Mr. C. R. Beddington, for !till and Son (Botley and Denmead), Ltd.. Batley. Southampton, when they contested a decision of the South Eastern Licensing Authority.
The company appealed against the addition of a vehicle to the B licence of Mr. R. Goodfellow, Waltham Chase. Southampton, to carry pigs within 75 miles of base. In June, 1956, said Mr. Beddington, Mr. Goodfellow was made a grant in such terms, but on appeal the radius was reduced to 25 miles. The licence expired when his appeal was still pending, was renewed with a radius of 75 miles, and it was against this renewal that his clients appealed.
Mr. Beddington said that one of the Authority's reasons for granting Mr. Goodfellow's first application was that there was going to be a big increase in the pig population, but that this evidence was not borne out at the later inquiry, when figures showed a fall in pig transport.
The appellants' cage was that they had all the time had ample vehicles available for the traffic. Figures of earnings put before the Tribunal at the previous appeal were "vulnerable."
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for the respondent, submitted that Mr. Goodfellow should not lose his 75-mile radius. The Tribunal adjourned until Thursday.