SUPREME COURT
LIBEL ACTION, APPEAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
ELTHAM, This Day. Mr Justice Ostler gave reserved nent in the appeal of "The Dairyman against the judgment of Mr Tate, S.M., in which he awarded £250 damages to G. H. H. Fitzgerald, of Eltham. His Honour found that respondent Fitzgerald had successfully proved the first count of a libel charging him with incompetence, but that the remaining two counts charged were the same imputations of incompetence - and appellants were not separately liable for these counts. The Magistrate's judgment for £125 on the first count was affirmed and the appeal was successful as regards the last two counts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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106SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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