LIBEL ACTION ABANDONED
WATERSIDERS’ SECRETARY AND MR. BRUCE. Sydney, December 2. When the libel action against Mr. S. M. Bruce was called in Court, counsel for the plaintiff announced that it was not intended to continue the case, which was struck out.
On the eve of his departure for London, when entering the Port Adelaide Town Hall prior to embarking on the Mooltan, a private detective, acting on behalf of a firm of solicitors, served upon Mr. Bruce a writ, understood to be for £5OOO, in connection with a claim for damages for alleged slan'der, instituted by Mr. Searle, secretary of the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers’ Union.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12
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109LIBEL ACTION ABANDONED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12
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