SLANDER CASE.
PLAINTIFFS AWARDED £SO,
(Per- Press Association.) Ashburton, laEt night. At the District Court, before District Judge Haeelden and a jury of four, William Comber Brown, mining engineer, Christchurch, and his wife, Louisa Brown, o'aimed .£3)O from Andrew Young, of Ashburton, and his wife, Ellen Young, for slander contained in a letter addressed to a Christehu eh resident, in which they alleged that plrntiffs had left without paying for board and residence due to Young, and that Mis Brown stole £2 while residing at Young’s. The jury awarded plaintiffs £SO and costs, JCII 143 41.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 5 December 1905, Page 2
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96SLANDER CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 5 December 1905, Page 2
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