A LIBEL ACTION.
DOWAGER COUNTESS SUES. THE EARLS OF SEAFIELD. LONDON, June 13. Mary, Dowager Countess of Seafield, has been awarded by the King's Bench Division £1000 damages for libel, and her daughter, Nina, Countess of Seafield, £500, against George Wilberforce Grant. This was the result of a letter defendant wrote to the editor of the "Strathspey Herald." In this letter Grant alleged that Nina was not the daughter of ■ the dowager countess and that the latter was guilty of gross imposture in putting her forward as the countess.
Countess of Semfield. The matter arose out of a claim in the Scottish Courts by Alexander Grant that the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh Earls of Seafield had no title to the earldom, but that Alexander Grant ought to be the eighth earl. Counsel explained that the eleventh earl married Mabel Townend, of New Zealand, in 1898, but no child was born to them until 1906. Counsel for defendant said the latter apologised for having repeated the tittle-tattle of a lady's tea party. Defendant, who is a retired civil servant, had done a foolish thing and would have to suffer for it.— (Sydney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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193A LIBEL ACTION. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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