A LIBEL ACTION.
Per Press Association.
Wellington, last night. At the Supreme Court to-day the Chief Justice, sitting without a jury, heard an undefended libel action in which Harry Hooper, a theatrical agent, sought to recover £250 damages from Theodore H. Ritchie, insurance agent. The libel consisted of remarks in a letter written by the defendant to a member of plaintiff’s company then at Palmerston North, statiDg that a certain person was not the plaintiff’s wife, that he was married to another woman, and that the police wyre seeking his whereabouts. The damages were assessed lot £25 -and costs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1068, 9 December 1903, Page 2
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99A LIBEL ACTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1068, 9 December 1903, Page 2
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