SLANDER ACTIONS.
Pres3 Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, March 25.
Two interesting actions in which Alfred Webb, manager of Eilerslia station, claims L2OOO. and Miss Larpent, hig adopted daughter, LSOOO damages from Cyril Darcy Leaver, Webb's nephew, for alleged slander*, are pr&csoding. The case for the plaintiffs shows that while Leaver was staying at Eilerslie he became engaged to Miss Larpent, but they quarrelled, and the engagecaeut was broken ofi. Leaver left the station, and subsequently wrote letters to Webb and MissLarpent's father, containing insinuations regarding the moral relations between the plaintiff. These letters form the grounds of the actions. The evidence brought to light the fact that Mist Larpent's presence at EUersiie lad to Mrs Webb separating from her husband, he agreeing to make her an allowance. Leaver recently inherited L 50.000 ia England.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10760, 26 March 1897, Page 2
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