LIBEL ACTION FAILS.
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT’S CLAIM. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, November 14. Finding that the words complained of were not defamatory against the plaintiff, the jury in the Supreme Court which heard a claim for £IOOO damages for alleged libel, brought by John Robertson, M.P., against Garnet Hornby Saunders (New Plymouth) and Harry Thompson (Napier), returned a verdict in favour of the defendants. 1 ' Plaintiff is secretary of the Now Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association, and editor of the motion picture exhibitors’ bulletin, and the defendants are motion picture exhibitors. The statement complained of was contained in a. letter published by the defendants before the election of representatives to the Film Control Board, after their names had been missed out of the list of candidates published in the bulletin. The jury of 12 was absent for four hours and a-quarter. They returned at 9 p.m., and announced that there was no possibility of their reaching unanimity, and the verdict accepted was 10 to 2.
Judgment Avas entered for tho defendants; but an application by counsel for the plaintiff for 10 days in which to move any motion was granted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 30, 15 November 1939, Page 3
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