NURSE LIBELLED
AWARDED £75 DAMAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON. Aug. 1. Ella Miller, a registered nurse, was to-day awarded £75 damages, when Mr E. Page, S.M., gave reserved judgment in a libel action against Mrs E. Williams, apartment-house keeper. The nurse's action was based upon remarks made by Mrs Williams on the telephone, when she said to the secretary of the Nurses’ Club, that Nurse Miller “had a man in her room until four o’clock in the morning.” The Magistrate held that qualified privilege could not be sustained in the circumstances. In evidence a fellowlodger had admitted that she had a man in her apartments at a late hour, but that Nurse Miller did not.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 17
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115NURSE LIBELLED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 17
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