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LONDON, June 1. The jury disagreed in a remarkable libel action brought by Mrs Col© against Briton Riviere, the " well-known Royal Academician, and his wife, because the latter had written, to Mr Cole, her husband, who is a grocer in a Suffolk village, where the Rivieres were spending a holiday, stating that the wife had had a child by her own uncle. Mrs Riviere admitted that the statement about a child was untrue, but asserted that Mrs Cole had persisted in misconduct while Cole, the husband, was an emigrant in Canada. Mr Justice Grantham, in summing up, said that no duty was cast upon society to give the husband such information.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 26
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113ALLEGED LIBEL Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 26
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