The Land Court has ruled that an area of 15 dunam of land, on which the Haifa railway station stands, belongs to Mrs. Templeton, the widow of Laurence Oliphant, the famous English novelist and forerunner of Zionism, who died in 1888, the J.T.A. learns, although the land in question was registered in 1898 in the name of the Turkish Government.
Mrs. Templeton claims a large sum as compensation in the case, which has been the subject of a long-standing dispute.
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