THREE FARTHINGS DAMAGES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 5

THREE FARTHINGS DAMAGES

LEAVE TO APPEAL SOUGHT. ECHO OF SLANDER CLAIM. (By Telegraph- P-ess Association!. WELLINGTON, Sept. 26

Application was made to the Court of Appeal to-day by ’Reginald Charles Boddie for leave to appeal from a decision of Mr Justice Ostler delivered at Wellington on June 27, 1933, wherein he awarded fd damages against James Dickson Sievwright in a claim for £SOO for alleged slander. The application was opposed by the respondent on the grounds that Bodciie was worth over £25, exclusive of wearing apparel. Mr C. H. Weston, counsel for the appellant, stated that the appellant had been obliged to ask his wife to live with relatives, and to put his children in a home and to live in a single room on one meal a day. He had debts amounting to over £3OO and liis only assets were stock in trade consisting of bottles and labels in the Chlorogenc -Syndicate and the goodwill of the business. Mr H. F. O'Leary for the resimndent stated that the interest in the syndicate alone was valued at well over £SO and that appellant was not a pauper.

The court adjourned until to-mor row.