CASE DISMISSED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9747, 13 December 1922, Page 5

CASE DISMISSED

ANDREWS v. ISITT.

INFORMANT CALLS NO EVIDENCE

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Magistrate’s Court, the information laid by E. H. Andrews, unofficial Reform candidate for the Christchurch North seat, against L. M. Isitt, w'as dismissed in the absence of evidence for the informant. The case was laid under the Legislature Act on the ground that Isitt had made an alleged untrue and defamatory statement in the following words:, “If he did, why was he so jubilant when at the last, induced by the promise of the P.P.A. to pay his expenses, Andrew's determined to stand.” The solicitor for the informant said no evidence would be tendered. The Magistrate allowed Isitt £1 Is costs. [The proceedings were taken under Section 158 of the Legislature Act, 1908, which is as follows“ Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months who at any time between the issue of the writ and the close of the poll publisehs or exposes, or causes to be published or exposed, to public view any document or writing or printed matter containing any untrue / statement defamatory to any candidate and calculated to influence the vote of any elector.”]