DAMAGE FOR SLANDER.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 112, 7 December 1905, Page 4

DAMAGE FOR SLANDER.

Felegrapb. Press ABRoriatmn Oouvnght AbHBORToN, DeC 5. At the District Court, before Did trict Judge Haselden aud a jury of (our, William Comber Brown, Mining Engineer, Christcburch,and his wife, Louisa Brown, claimed £300 from Andrew Young, of Ashburton, and his wife, Elle Young, for slander contained in a letter addressed to a Christchurch resident, in which it is alleged that plaintiffs left without paying board and residence due to Young, and that Mrs Brown stole £2 while residing at Young's. The jury awarded plaintiffs 150 and costs £11 14a 4d.