§ MR. GEORGE ALLSOPP (Worcester)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has boon drawn to the case of "Hardy v. Ind, Coope, and Company," decided at the Derby Assizes last Saturday before Mr. Justice Day, when the executors of the late owner of a licensed house obtained a verdict for damages of £2,000, as being the value of a licence lost to a firm of brewers; and whether, as this verdict was held by the Judge to be in accordance with the law, he will persist with the proposed enactment in the Veto Bill that the owners of licensed properties have no just claim for compensation?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir W. HARCOURT,) DerbyThe only report of the case I have seen is not sufficient to enable me to form an opinion on its legal bearings. Apparently it was an action by one brewer against another for allowing a public-house to be used for disreputable purposes.