UNIQUE LIBEL CASE
BETWEEN UNION OFFICIALS £250 DAMAGES CLAIMED (Per Press Association.,' CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A unique libel action was heard in tho Supreme Court to-day when the president and members of the Canterbury Carpenters’ nndl Joiners’ Union sued the officials of the New Zealand Amalgamated . Society of Carpenters and the Joiners’ Association, because of words in an article published in the New Zealand Carpenter and Joiner, a journal owned by the defendants, holding that the article was defamatory, false, malicious, and injurious to the Canterbury Union, and! calculated to arouse feelings of hate and contempt. The plaintiffs jointly claimed £250 damages, and 1 sought an Injunction restraining the defendants from further publication of the alleged defamation. The defence denied that the article had the meaning stated, and said they did not refer to. the plaintiffs, and that the words were true and fair comment. (Proceeding.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 8
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