ONE MORAL OF BARNED'S AND OVEREND'S
... The two cases of Barned's and Overend's suggest a moral which should be carefully heeded. In both, old firm of repute -was taken off by a new company of great respectability, and in both cases the result was inconceivably disastrous. The case of Overend's is a typical case. Most respectable men, born to immense wealth, who believed that they had lost much of it, but believed also that they ...