TYPIST AWARDED £250
“FILTHY ANONYMOUS LETTER.”
LONDON, December 1
Miss Elizabeth Pearson, shorthandtypist, trying to obtain a post in a bank, was turned down because of what her firm told the bank. 'Her firm had acted on what was described at Leeds, Assizes, as “a filthy anonymous letter.”
Miss Pearson, of Moorland View. Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, suing her firm, Lowcock and Sons, of Linton Mills, Linton-in-Craven, for libel, was awarded £250 damages, with costs, by agreement.
Mr Willoughby Jardine, K.C., announcing the settlement, of the; action, said that in April, when Miss Pearson was employed by Lowcock and Sons, “a, filthy anonymous letter,” addressed to her, was put in the firm’s let-ter-box. It never reached her. but was read and acred upon by the firm. They made the grossest charges against, her character and wrote unfavourably of her to the bank. As soon as the firm realised the true position they explained to the hank, and the bank knew now that Miss Pearson had -an unblemished character.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1937, Page 2
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