ANOTHER £1000.
DAMAGES AGAINST TRUTH
BERTLING WINS. HIS CASE
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, March 18. Tlie case in which Albert Ernest Louis Bertling, superintendent of the Wellington Zoo, claimed £2000 damages for libel from John Norton, proprietor of the newspaper New Zealand Truth, was concluded to-day in the Supreme Court, before Sir Robert Stout and a special jury, after a three-days' trial. The jury found that the plaintiff had been libelled, and awarded him' CIOOO damages. Tlie jury was an liofu- considering its verdict, to which it added a rider that the -evidence had not only failed to establish the charge against the plaintiff, but had fully proved his competency for the post he holds. An order was granted to stay execution for four days pending an a.ppeal for a new trial on the grounds of misdirection by the Chief Justice.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1138, 19 March 1910, Page 1
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141ANOTHER £1000. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1138, 19 March 1910, Page 1
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