A REMARKABLE CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 124, 2 June 1910, Page 8

A REMARKABLE CASE.

ALLEGED LIBELLOUS LETTER

SOCIETY AND ITS DUTIES

[press association.] (Received June 2, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The jury disagreed in a remarkable libel case, in which Mrs Cole is suing Briton Riviere, Royal Academician, and his wife because the latter wrote to Mrs Cole's husband, who is a grocer in a Suffolk village, where the Rivisre's were holiday-mak-ing, stating that his wife had a child by her own \mcle. Mrs Riviera admitted that the statement regarding the child was untrue, but persisted that misconduct took place while Mrs Cole's husband was an emigrant in Canada. Mr Justice Grantham, in summing up, said that no duty was cast iipon society to give a husband such information.