SUIT FOR DAMAGES FAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16497, 24 March 1917, Page 8

SUIT FOR DAMAGES FAIL.

3 0 CLAIM BY M.P. FOR NAPIER. I >f r% I I PLAINTIFF TO PAY COSTS. | y [BT TELEGRAPH.—PEE3S ASSOCUIfO.V.]": t; y [bt TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATtOX.] •' NAPIER. Friday. I 7 6 A CLAIM by J. V. Brown, MP., Mayer J: . " e A claim by J. V. Brown, M.P., Mayer y jof Napier, and member of Napier har- | 0 bour Board, against A. E. Jul], of W&- jj h pawa. chairman of the Napier Harbour | It Board, for £501 damages, was heard is 1 *" the Supreme Court to-day. . | '® The claim was made in respect -& tin |< r following utterance alleged iff have been ' M e made by the defendant as chairman at i v I. e meeting of the Harbour.Board on August \ ; l- 8, 1916:"I have every reason to sat ; 9 that Mr. Brown has not acted as hsl - should have acted. His action was tantae mount to .a person agreeing to becoij . 1. foster parent to an infant and then tab ■- ing it to a quiet place and strangling it. t It was equivalent to Germany s sub- •- marine policy. Mr. Brown did not 'ens ' r advise them that the amendment was is. t progress, and he was not acting in cosi formity with the best usages, "i doubt : [. whether there is another member of tha t House who would take up the same,atti(j tude as Mr. Brown. I feel it is a july. B when an opportunity occurs to benefit tin t_. people of Napier, "and for the mentor : „ I to. assist, that that member should spits j d j their guns and prevent the work going I IS i on." Mr. _ Jul! was referring to Mr. „ Brown's attitude concerning the Napier Harbour Board Empowering Bill, vrhi« Was not submitted to Parliament last session. ; : l a The jury returned a verdict for itj. fendant with costs against the plaintiff. n —*