On Tuesday Lord Darling gave judgment in the astonishing Bank
Case. He decided that the £150,000 paid into the Midland Bank (out of which the plaintiff, Mr. Robinson, had sought to recover £125,000) had been in practice stolen from the foreign notability known in the case as Mr. " A," that it was still his property, and that the plaintiff had no title to it. The £150,000 was really hush money for the concealment of Mrs. Robinson's misconduct with Mr. " A." The questions to the jury had been framed with great ability by Lord .Darling to bring out conclusively whether or nut the money did belong to the plaintiff. Lord Darling declared that the action ought never to have been brought and could only have been brought by a man whose mind was thoroughly debased—this, of course, in spite of the fact that the jury had decided that Mr. Robinson and his wife did not take part in the actual blackmail conspiracy. They only profited from it after it was over. As Lord Darling put it, " they joined the Board after allotment."
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