DAMAGES FOR SLANDER.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 84, 10 April 1894, Page 3

DAMAGES FOR SLANDER.

A DANCING MASTER HEAVILY MULCTED. I IBt Telegraph. I . (Our Own Correspondent. ) ( [PKR B.S. ROTOSIAHANA AT TUG. BLUFF.] , Sydnxt, Sit". April. An notion was hoard horo on Friday in I which Fanny Lamb sought to recover .61000 from Allan P. West, a woll-known j professor of dancing, for alander. I The plaintiff ia the wife of Frank Lamb of 1 Parramatta river. Her oas.i was that I the had been a pnpil at Wost'a ' Dancing Academy ; that West had made oortuir ohargos ngainst her to her bus- ! band in the presence of the dancing-class ; j and that ho told the members of the class that be had tc expel one of his pupils (mean- ' ing the plaintiff) for impropriety. It was , furthermore stated that Wost had spoken to Lamb stating that his wife had been dancing ' too muoh with a young man employed in the j Public Library, named Gregory P. Chapman. In his evidence Chapman stated that he itcquently danced with Mrs. Lamb ; that Weal hud found fanlt with him because of this ; and that he and Wost had quarrelled. Lamb had accused him of fpo<iking lightly of his wifo, and asked him to discontinue his acquaintance with her. Walter Lamb, husband of the p.laintiff, said they had been married about 13 years. West had warned him to watoh his wife, and had advised him to broik off the acquaintance between hor and Chapman. He hid also made certain ohargeß about the relationship between Mrs. Lamb and a yenng man named Arthur Yesoy, bis nephow. West told htm tbat Mrs. Lamb had ruined Vesey ; also that he intended to ojpeL Mrs. Lamb from tho danoing-claa*. Arthur Vesey stated that he had frequently danoed with Mrs. Lamb, and on one ocoasion West warned him against her, Buying she was "no goad." Ho strongly doniea the inferences that ha had been unduly familiar with Mrs. Lamb, or that they in any way misconducted themselves. The plaintiff gave an unconditional denial . to the charge She said she had never danced with Chapmau after her husband , had spokon to her about him. Tho jury returned a verdict for .6300 . d images.