MORAL VERDICT FOR SLANDER CLAIM.
ONE FARTHING DAMAGES.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night.
'One farthing damages on'each of two counts of slander was the verdict returned in ,a claim for £BOO damages heard by the Hon. Mr Justice Gallan and a jury. Plaintiff was Marguerite Wrack who alleged that defendant, an old man, William John Bekker, had made statements to two witnesses imputing that she performed illegal operations on girls and was of low r moral character. Bekker, who was said to be 80 years of age and to have pestered plaintiff to marry him, denied through his solicitor that he had used any such language. The jury found it proved that the language alleged had been used but assessed damages at only one farthing on each of the two counts.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 February 1937, Page 7
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