LIBEL ACTION.
: T" * JUDGMENT (ritES 5 ASSOCIATION . • INViERCAEGILL> A claim' for £3OO damagoa <m|| brought by Mervyn Holmes solicitor, of Invercavgill, Street Baxter,: also of heard in the Magistrate's 5 , afternoon. <; <• * ; *ir£§|| The action arose from certain '£sp|||j defamatory statements. con^ a letter written by defendant; airop ,y| lished in a local newspaper last wOjgjMj ber at' a time when considersbio; pQSsSH attention was being taken in- *W ujjHj toration question here. •_M>Wmi president of the Restoration that time and Baxter is a the no-license cause. . - The Magistrate entered plaintiff for £25 with As plaintiff had been comj ,J||j| vindicated by defendant,- the ®®V T tjf§|| hot call for heavy damages," JW" the Magistrate, who,' 'in assessniff *!|||i amount, said it was designed ? ffifttirnl upon defendant the danger oirwHOHJ such letters to the Press. - ,
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 18 March 1932, Page 16
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134LIBEL ACTION. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 18 March 1932, Page 16
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