Have you agreements with the dealers in Shanghai?—I must refer you to my counsel.
Mr. Phillips—I am asking you, not your counsel.
The Assessor—What has this to do with the case?
Mr. Phillips—It goes to the credit of company, and it is a matter which it is relevant for the Court to bar before it. If it is a fact that company has these agreements with dealers in Shanghai and other places it will go to show that the defendants' cigarettes are not sold in the same abop, and cannot, therefore, be mistaken for the plaintiffs' brands.
Mr. Teesdale—It seems to me that my friend, instead of going to the real issue of the case, is attempting to conceal it by making a crusade ayainst my clients. It seems to me that he has gone in every possible direction in order to bring before the Court evidence about things that have occurred previously with regard to the affairs of the Company. He is cross-examining Mr. Cobbs on matters absolutely irrelevant to this case. I ask the Court that each question my friend puts be aube mitted to the Court, unless it bear: absolutely on the issue of the case.
reply to the Magistrate, Mr. Phillips said that the agreements about which he wished to cross-examine the witness would show that if their conditions were carried out they prevented the sale of Young China" cigarettes in the same hands as " Pirate" cigarcttes, and, therefore, there could in no case be any deception or misapprehension on the part of the customer.
The Assessor—There is no allegation that they were sold together.
Mr. Phillips—There is the gener! allegation that purchasers were deceit-
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