£1700 DAMAGES CLAIM
By Insurance Coy. AGAINST ANOTHER COMPANY. [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, May 19. To-day the Dominion Life Assurance Office proceeded against the Australian Mutual Provident Society, before Mr. Justice Ostler, claiming a total of £1,700 for resulting from a statement reflecting on its financial position, allegedly made by an A.M.P. agent, and his subagent, to three Taranaki farmers. The defence denied the alleged publication, and also denied that, if made, the statements were defamatory: and stated that expressions of regret and unqualified assurances that any reflections would be without foundation, had been written to the farmers concerned, and been published in two Taranaki newspapers, and that a cheque for £52 10s, representing plaintiff’s legal costs, had been sent to the plaintiff’s solicitors, and had been returned. Plaintiff had also terminated the agent’s appointment. Plaintiff had therefore suffered no damages.
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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1941, Page 10
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