AN ACTION FOR SLANDER.
• ■■• ■ ' ■ » _. ■ ■-. . ..,-. (i'EB UNWED FbeSS ASSOCIATION.) Nemon, May 16. In the District Conrt R. G. Thomson a. member of tlie local school' committee, Bued H. Evans, .teacher, of Motupiko, for £100 damagss for alleged slander in sajiug that Thomson incited fae bays to theft;. Jmj-e Robuicon to-day decided on the ijointsm^d by d«feidant' 3 counsel. He. cal e d' tiiat. the that the defendant w be Q C all ß d to the meeting ot the soaool committee was on his d.^fcuce having to answer certain charges, aud his accuser being_ P rejent it was alleged he Wed the words compkitaed of. .The iudg,> s «d defendant might have imprudeatly expresß«d irnvself but tae occasion was one of qualiflod pnvileae -od the words were not uttered in malice. Piaintifi was nonsuited with costs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10362, 17 May 1895, Page 2
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135AN ACTION FOR SLANDER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10362, 17 May 1895, Page 2
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