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ENORMOUS DAMAGES.

It is only possible to guess what thft costs will amount to in the English soap . libel case, but they will undoubtedly reach . five figures. The highest amount of damage* ever before given in a libel suit was award? ed in the case of Kitson v. Playfair in 1906* when the amount reached £12.000. In the Divorce. Court, however, this record wag « beaten in the Constaotinidi case. In which the damages amounted to £2s.ooowhll* s the highest amount of damages ever award? 4 ed was in the action against the .South Wales Miners' Federation on the "stop-day** question, when the federation was ordered .. i .? to pay the colliery proprietor* £57,562.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6316, 17 September 1907, Page 9

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ENORMOUS DAMAGES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6316, 17 September 1907, Page 9

ENORMOUS DAMAGES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6316, 17 September 1907, Page 9

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