SLANDER ACTION ENDS.
MOW®" FOB NEW TBIAL< WITHDRAWN. ' r\' ' JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF. tju final stage of the case in which giOMl Trevor Dibble, surveyor and eontelting engineer to the Mount Wellln#ton Road Board, was awarded £300 S&SUißst Wesley Everitt. Richirdl ■ formerly foreman of the board s S pit, was heard at the Supreme Coaft to-day when, the motion for a new trial waß withdrawn, and it waa im»u«ced that the matter had been iitttai* , The original claim was for £500, and the special jury, after sitting for three tol and a-half, awarded £50 damages minit Richards for the issue of a letter (which he had seat to the board) to the repreeentative of a newspaper and £250 (or defamatory statements made at a netting of. ratepayers at Panmure. No 2*a»g<B were awarded for sending the letter to tie. board. The. settlement of the matter was isnonttced to-day by Mr. J. J. Sullivan, eouuel for Richards. Judgment waa entered accordingly in terms of the jury'idnding.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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164SLANDER ACTION ENDS. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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