SUPREME COURT.
ACTION rOlt SLANDER. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 31. At the Supreme Court (to-day Harriet Dingle sought to recover from Henry Toonan, £250 damages for alleged slander. Air J. A. Keid who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that the plaintiff, si widow, was the proprietor of the JJailway Hotel at Drury, and that ilie defendant, Harry or Henry Too,1:011 belonged to Pahiatua. The slander alleged was that defendant had in plaintiff's hotel in the presence of witnesses made a statement suggesting t.iat Airs Dingle was unduly intimate with his brother. Mr Reid asked for such d»mages as might actually bo obtainable, saying that ho did not hope to get the full amount. After evidence had been given in proof of the facts Mr Justice Edwards gave judgment against defendant for :t: iOO witn costs. Defendant did not appear.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13918, 1 June 1909, Page 6
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