APPEAL LODGED
INFINITESIMAL DAMAGES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. Application was made to tlie Court of Appeal by Reginald Charles Boddie for leave to appeal as a pauper from the decision of Mr Justice Ostler delivered at Wellington on June 27, 1933, wherein he awarded Jd damages against James Dickson Sievwright in a claim for £SOO for alleged slander. The application was opposed by respondent on the ground that Boddie was worth over £25, exclusive of wearing apparel. Mr H. C. Weston, counsel for appellant, stated that appellant had been obliged to ask his wife to live with relations, to put his children in a home and to live in a single room on one meal per day. He had debts amounting to over £3OO and his only assets were stock-in-trade consisting of bottles and labels in the Chlorogene Syndicate and the goodwill of the said business. Mr H. F. O’Leary, for respondent, stated that the interest in the syndicate alone was valued at well over £SO and that appellant was not a pauper within the rules of the Court. The matter was adjourned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 3
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185APPEAL LODGED Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 27 September 1933, Page 3
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