WHAT’S IN A NAME?
DAMAGES FOR £25.
NEWSPAPER HUMORIST’S
ERROR.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) V CHRISTCHURCH, July, 4. A claim for £IOO as damages in a libel action was made against “Sun” Newspapers, Ltd., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by Mrs Jean Cunningham. The case arose out of the publication of a paragraph in the Christchurch “Sun.” Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presided. iPlaintiff claimed that the defendants had published the following statement: “I notice that a Miss Jean Cluck was entertained the other evening at a ‘china party.’' She is getting married at Easter. I hope they don’t give her a setting of Easter eggs.”
Plaintiff claimed that the words were libellous and defamatory. They had appeared in the humorous column. •
The magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff for £25, holding that the paragraph was in a way defamatory .
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17930, 4 July 1930, Page 4
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