OTAKI SLANDER CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 5

OTAKI SLANDER CASE.

plaintiff awarded damages. (Per Press Association.) Palmerston X., August 30. In the Otaki slander case, in which C. A. W. Monckton sued Byron Brown for slander, claiming £1230 damages, the jury, after sixty-five minutes’ retirement, answered the twenty-eight questions put by the Chief Justice, in favour of the plaintiff, who was awarded £O7O damages out of the £1250 claimed. The damages were allotted as follows : —Far the slander uttered to Leslie Slurman, manager Loan and Mercantile, man, manager Dalgety’s, £200; to Roland Young, manager Loan and Mercantile, £200; to Stanlay Beattie, station manager, £100; to John David Howell, £lso;'to R. R. Martin, Opposition organiser, £2O; total, £070; with the second day counsel and costs. The defendant had told all these people that ho held dishonoured hills of the plaintiff’s, and that he had to have them five times renewed, whereas it was shown that he held no such bills, but one bill of the plaintiff’s station manager, since dead, which plaintiff had endorsed. Plaintiff is the selected Opposition candidate for Otaki, while defendant is his rival on the same side.