ALLEGED SLANDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 8

ALLEGED SLANDER.

THE GISBOBHE CASK VERDICT- FOR DEFENDANT.' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) \ GISBOBNE, Friday. ' The action in which Dr. JameVlfc* Udownie, of Portsmouth, EiDgbid, claimed from .his cousin, Mrs. W. J. Bet- I timbre, nee Gibson, of Gisboroe, tie'an 0f.£6,000 as damages for alleged sheder, was concluded in the Supreme Cnst before his Honor Mr. Justice Coops iai I a jury at a late hour to-night. Dk?H. | G. Bamford, of Auckland, represented t|» plaintiff, whose evidence, together vV, that of England, had been taken ob'mm* mission. Mr. L. J. Burnard, of Gitierae, j appeared for the defendant. ' It appeared that James-Gihm-Iml made a demise of property :worth*£MN to the plaintiff, which he revoked, ultimately devising put property to Dr. Melldownie's wife children. The plaintiff alleged the tb defendant had. influenced the: testate changing his will, and" had slandered plaintiff by imputing drunkenness to Defendant absolutely denied the allege tion. ■"■•,.. 'In the course.of fier exaaunttioa, tk defendant admitted that ate kept *m» for the testator, and that during hk lifetime he had made present* to tor «f amounts totalling between :i £Meßieißi I £0,000. She alleged that the, the testator's will . was brought atat through his hearing of the plaiatift domestic relations. :• ' , '. By a majority of eleven to one, the jar/ gave a verdict for the defendant imminent was therefore entered for ha costs, £138 4/, together with dttkww roents and witnesses' by the registrar., $: ,' •■< .