Mr. Fleming's answer admitted the formal paragraphs of the petition and that he had obtained full information regarding the plaintiff bank but denied that the information so obtained was secret or confidential, in the sense that. information concerning the same should or could have been withheld from the other Banks, the patties to the exchange contracts involved, the names of which said Banks were set forth in plaintiffs' "petition. Defendant further denied that he had divulged such information unlawfully to Mr. Robert Buchan of the Asia Banking Corporation or to a meeting of the representatives of the banks, while he also denied that the plaintiffs had been damaged to the arhount of Tls. 500,000 which plaintiffs claimed.
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