DAMAGES FOR SLANDER AND MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.
|PJB» pa ESS A33OOIATIOK.J Wellington, December 8. A case is before the Chief Justice today in which Charlotte Johns, a seamstress, sues Peter Hansen, her late landlord, fir £SOO damages for slander and malicious proseoutiun. As plaintiff was behind -with her rent and would not quit, Hansen boarded up her rooms. She took down the boards and burned some of the chips. Hansen prosecuted tier for alleged theft of the timber, but eventually withdrew the charge. He is . also claimed to hare made a reflection on her character. The defeadant pleads that if he made (he imputations the/ were true.
Wbllinqton, Dacamber 9. At 7.30 on Saturday night the jury 'returned a verdict for the plaintiff with £l5O damages for slander, and £SO fo. <lam ig6i for 111 Jicious prosecution,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 244, 10 December 1900, Page 2
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