MASSEY V. N.Z. TIMES.
PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENT. tly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Bee. May 20, 0.10 a.m.) London, May 19. Lord Atkinson, in delivering judgment, said the question turned upon whether the cartoon applied to Mr. Massey personally, and whether it attacked his private character. Dealing with tho paragraph headed "Poisonous pamphlet," he said that while tile paragraph exculpated Massey and his colleagues from circulating it, it inoulpated tho party making the allegations of dishonesty, fraud, and deceit. The plaintiff's accusation of Tammanyism was political warfare, and fair comment. He regretted tho absence of the full report of Sir John Findlay's speech when the paragraph was published, in order to have more clearly established which lie he exhorted tho Opposition to hitch their wagon. On the evidence, the Supreme Courtis decision must stand.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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131MASSEY V. N.Z. TIMES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1444, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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