APPEAL CASE.
A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. .BY TELECtUI'H—rr.ESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT (Rec. June 8, 1.9 a.m.) i Sydney, Juno 7. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has delivered judgment in Macintosh v. Dun, an appeal from a decision of the High Court of Australia. The case is one of the most important tried here. It involved a question of privilege with regard to the right of by defendants of certain mercantile reports to subscribers, in which they made statements as to plaintiff's business. Defendants pleaded privilege, but the Court gave plaintiff a verdict for £8013 damages.; An appeal to the Full Court decided that the defendants' action was privileged. An appeal followed to the High Court; which also held that defendants were privileged. /' ; The case then went to the Privy Council,, with the result that the original verdict for ■ plaintiff stands. ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 7
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141APPEAL CASE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 7
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