ACTION FOR SLANDER
WOMAN SUES FATHER-IN-LAW.
SOCIETY LEADERS IN COURT.
By Telegraph.Pros? Association.—CopyrigEt.
(Received January 17, 11 p.m.)
London, January 17. Mrs. Horace West has commenced an action, accusing Sir Algernon West, her father-in-law, of slander, causing her to bo excluded from Court functions.
The action is being heard before Mr. Justice Darling in the King's Bench Division of the High Court.
Mr. Duke, K.C., plaintiff's counsel, stated that the marriage of plaintiff and Mr. West had been happy for some years. Then owing to her husband's misconduct her health had suffered. A deed of separation was agreed upon in 1908, and Sir Algernon West slanderously informed Viscount Althorp, then Lord Chamberlain, Mrs. Asquith, and others that plaintiff was responsible for the separation, owing to her hopeless extravagance.
The Court upheld Lord A 1 thorp's refusal, in the public interest, to disclose whether Sir Algernon West had made the statement to him.
The case has been adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14581, 18 January 1911, Page 7
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