Selati Railway, Transvaal, South Africa. James Toleman decd. F.C.Winby v. Messrs.Martin...

Selati Railway, Transvaal, South Africa. James Toleman decd. F.C.Winby v. Messrs.Martin and Dobson: other actions included Harwood v. Oyens and Others, Henderson v. Oyens and Others, Winby v. Oyens and Others, Pannell v. Martin, Burt v. Martin, Martin v.Winby, Henderson v. the Northern Railway of the South African Republic, Harwood and Others v. La Compagnie Franco-Belge du Chemin de Fer du Nord de la Republique Sud Africaine, Baron Robert Oppenheim and Others, Floersheim v. Winby and the South African Republic v. La Compagnie Franco-Belge etc. The deceased had invested money amounting to about £90,000 in the building of the Selati Railway in the Transvaal. Part of this money had been repaid but there was difficulty in collecting the rest owing to a dispute between the Transvaal Government and the Railway Company. The Treasury Solicitor advised that the assets bequeathed by the Testator to various charities be paid out and that it be left to the charities concerned to endeavor to collect the South African assets. The railway was apparently taken over by the South African Republic and renamed the Northern Railway. Then the Transvaal was annexed by the British Government in the course of the South African wars. It then rested with the British Government to deal with those who had invested in the line. Mention is made of a sale of the Railway Company's assets - the firm of Westwood and Winby were involved as builders of the Railway - and of various steps taken to protect the investors. The British Government offered the Executors of James Toleman the sum of £5,000 in compensation which it seemed was in addition to anything they could collect by other means.

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