DAMAGE FOR SLANDER
TJXI’UBLISUABLE EVIDENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Rotorua, Last Night. Mrs. Colin David Smith, Kawaha Point, Rotorua, claimed from Thomas Henry ITulton £3OO damages for alleged false and malicious statements. Counsel for the plaintiff asked the court to bo cleared, which was refused. 'J no evidence was unpublishable and of an intimate domestic character. After a great quantity of evidence had been given the magistrate, Mr, Paterson, summed up in a scathing in* dictment of the defence and the conduct of the defendant, awarding £2O damages on the first cause of the plaint and on the two second causes £lOO each.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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