DAMAGES AWARDED
APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, September 26. An application was made to the Court of Appeal by Reginald Charles Boddie for leave to appeal from the decision of Mr Justice Ostler, delivered in Wellington on June 27, 1933, wherein he was awarded id damages against James Dickson Sievwright in a claim for £5OO for alleged slander. The application was opposed by respondent on the grounds that Boddie was worth over £25, exclusive of wearing apparel. Mr C. H. Weston, counsel for appellant, stated that appellant had been obliged to ask his wife to live with relations, to put their children in a home and to live in a single room on one meal pci - day. He had debts amounting to over £3OO. His only assets were stock-in-trade consisting of bottles and labels in a chlorogene syndicate and the goodwill of said business.
Mr H. F. O’Leary, for respondent, stated that interest in the syndicate alone was valued at well over £5O and that appeallant was not a pauper within the rules. The Court then adjourned.
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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 11
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