POLITICAL LIBEL ACTIONS
Press Atwciation—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 22. (Received February 23, at 8.45 a.m.) The Court of Appeal overruled Mr Justice Darling's derision that each party in the Simmons versus ' Liberal Opinion' libel action should pay their own costs, and ordered Mr Dunn, tho defendants' solicitor, to pay the plaintiff's costs, less £1,50. The ' Daily Chronicle's ' appeal from the decision in the libel action in which £5,000 damages were awarded Mr P. C. Simmons, a Conservative candidate, has been settled privately. Tho terms were not divulged.
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Evening Star, Issue 14497, 23 February 1911, Page 6
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