ACTION TOR LIBEL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 6

ACTION TOR LIBEL

- 1V«I StJED t £4O DAMAGES AWARDED 1... ■.•....,-.' ■. /.. -- •■ -•'-V ■'■ (Per UmraDPßias Assocutwkt.) GHRISTCHUECH, March 6. Charles Seymour Trillo, prdprltitor ■}'& thd Gold Band Tai% was the, defendant in a libel action heard before Mr H» A. Yonne. S M., in the civil court thi« morning when a city traffic inspector,, J» Bburkei claimed £75 damages, •: alleging %hat Trillo in i letter to the chairtnaa of-"the By-laws Committee >i "the City _■< Councilon. December J# : had ;<margea him with being guilty o? perjury, gross misconduct: in the discharge of hta duties and that he had acted unjustifiably and discreditably. £he case was a to the' prosecution.? of 4 ; ,GoH: -Bind 'v..£axt - driver for a breach cf the traffic regulations./ '\*'V' v,r; :'- : ;.-P- '.:■' '»' Themagistrate, after hearing the mdence. said there was ■no toubt, that tha statements complained ofwere untrur and were •malicloasiy ?maifev r ;It ,wa« necessary that the plaintiff should be feimbursed for all possible expenses incurred in defending ids character. Judgment; wotald- he for. f*o. ;wlth *6tts.