PECULIVR LIBEL SUIT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1297, 7 January 1887, Page 3

PECULIVR LIBEL SUIT.

The Supreme! Court at fnvercarjll WKB engaged fot two lavs lie i i i.» tlu li'tel notion of Aleikle v. J. G Ward of tee ifioff, in which damages- of Id.O iO were cl limed. Air l'i chelt f v pi.i miff; Air Dennislou and Air llnsseil for d-fenlant. Pmh.titf had negotiated a loan on security of and wool, i.nt defendant o'j cred to the .seeuiirv as irisulfic'eut Al-ikle then said he would uive ih- d eds of some and n collateral s cnntv. I)n« fe slant's solicitors fon id tbit the l and did not belong to Aleikle, ami also that an nnsatisiied hill of sale exi-e d own- the sheep that Aleikle p ■ *;»oa*-l to give as seeuri yto War 1. .Menlo—ha I by this time got Ward's cheque tor the balance of the loa i, and ■an- " asked to return it,said he hj id eft it for d'sco ut. A solictor’s clerk ■'•as -e t with him to tret the cheque back, tut Ale:k e, with the cheque in his pocket Rave him the slip in a right-of-way. The train by which he was to leave town was w itched, bu M i le did not turn up. 'J he guara of the train sad he got tin at a s.athm eijht mites from town, and o’hers co. ro’•orate 1 this. Aleikle, lioweve-, Sw.ire that lie ! rode to A'vndli.im, 'ear which he re- ! sides. Previous t> having twn he [ had got a tradesman na_.nd APKwea from whom he made a purchase tone- ! C'.'pr. Want’s cheque, and giv him his I ( M‘it A im’s) to save exeh to .a The li'iftl consisted in Ward's acountau', without his knowledge, telegraphing to Aleikle; “lleturn cirque )■••-. [ceived f'-iun A. APKwau for f/57, I etlie.iwise arrest for rwf sen ati ni or I rand. Payment .stopped _.T G. Ward.” Plaintiff avened this meant that he had committed an indicra'.ie offence by obtaining a cinq ;e liy false pretences, and tiiat the message was fahe and malicious. The secmii c unt slated th .t the defendant seat a telegram to the manager of ;!ie Colo, nial I’a dc, Wyn.lhi ill, stopping pvincut of the cheque, in consequence "of which the cheques given 1 y tin- plain- • ifF in t tVour iif se.veral people, an I drawn again-t the cheque for 1.2A7 weie d siouered, to tiie injury of p'aimiffs ch iracer and credit. The third count, was that defendant pub-li-hed and cause 1 Al‘Kwe to pi li,h certain wouls in the ‘-eu hland limes’ t • the eflect that payment of cheque had been stopped, meaning tlvieoy that plaint ill hid obtained the cirque by false pretences Air Dem.i.t n cdie 1 attenti ui to the absurdities ot ihest.at.no whiifc made the co, y of a tele ram bearing a person’s name, but sent by someone else who pins his initials on it, primd hide evidence against a person wbos name it boro ah hough the initials were not reproduced ut the rcceivi g ndice. In this way a person might ho cast in damng. s for a telegram lie had never s"Oi>. Tin jury found for the defend* nut.