MILITARY LIBEL SUIT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2409, 15 March 1915, Page 6

MILITARY LIBEL SUIT

8 AN APPEAL ALLOWED. ® London, March 12. e t"ir Edward Ward's appeal in the Adam case has been allowed. W. A. Adam, in Febrtwry of la ; i year, sued Colonel Sir Edwpid >\ard, late Secretary to the War Office, for libel alieged to have been Mrniained in a letter written in 1910 or. he-half ot the Aiinj Council to General Scobell, " on'l con-nu nicat'ed to the Press, upholdJ ing Genera) Scobell's confidential reports in August, 1910, when, '■ a effif oeri,. ir.ciuding Major Adam, were ic- '' ra-.ved from the Army List. Mr. Justice Darling ruled that there was no r evidence of malice on the part of fcir '" E'lward Ward, and left thb ij::wioi cf priv'.i->(i.n tc the jury. The lury found that' Sir Edward Ward had jtublshed ihe t'ocument in the discharge if his public aulj, but that the wtre •iot proper for the public'to ..km vr. ''vo. thousand , pounds •. damages were' awarded.