SLANDER ACTION
FARTHING DAMAGES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, February 24. One farthing damages on each of two counts of slander was the verdict returned in a claim for, £800 damages heard by Mr. Justice Callan and a jury today. The plaintiff, Marguerite Wrack, alleged that the defendant, an old man, William John Bekker, had made statements to two witnesses imputing that she performed illegal operations on. girls and was of low moral character. Bekker, who was said to be eighty years of age, and to have pestered the I plaintiff to marry him, denied through his solicitor that he had used any such language. The jury found it proved that the language alleged had been used but assessed damages at only one farthing on each of the two counts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 6
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129SLANDER ACTION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 6
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