The Ontario Court of Appeal has set Dec. 1 at Osgoode Hall
in Toronto to hear why Burnbrae Farms Ltd. ought not be let off the hook from
the conspiracy case filed by Svante Lind and his Best Choice Eggs.
Joe Hudson’s lawyers succeeded in getting Burnbrae exempted
from the case in court in Toronto earlier this year, but Lind appealed.
L.H. Gray and Son Ltd. failed in a similar attempt to have
the lawsuit against it dismissed and has already lost its appeal.
The case has been before the courts since 2005 and in a
nutshell is a complaint that Gray, Hudson and Harry Pelissero of the Egg
Farmers of Ontario marketing board conspired to drive Best Choice out of the
egg-grading business.
There is a long list of related complaints about cheating,
price-fixing and market-rigging in the conspiracy case Lind has filed. Gray’s
lawyers have denied any wrongdoing.
