The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday June 27 1932

[Vol XXXVL It appears that the lady in the case had somehow acquired the appellation of Helen of Troy." The scholarly soul of) Lord Justice Scrutton felt outraged and the learned Judge recalling the classical lines of Marlowe remarked with some severity that she was not a person to be compared to the Grecian whose face had launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Iliium. [...] But the most instructive part of the episode is the well-bred reticence with which it was treated by the press and the quiet tact with which it was handled by the Master of the Rolls. [...] In the above instances the point will be allowed to be argued only if it can be decided upon the materials bfore the Court and does not involve the taking of further evidence or the sending of the case or any issue back to the lower Court or a decision of a question of fact. [...] In the course of the enquiry into the assets of the firm for distribution after the dissolution of the partnership it transpired that a certain sum of money had been debited as being paid as bribes. [...] If the bribes have been paid out of the assets of the firm the partnership funds become reduced in value to the extents of the amounts so paid.