INSULTS THAT END IN COURT.
Germany, it is complained, lias too many laws. The things- for which one earn be haled into Court are innumerahle. Trivial insults may he resented by prosecution for libel—the man who is called an onion, a pig, an Englishman, or anything else that lie considers opprobrious, hastens to get satisfaction. But the courts are discriminating in deciding what is and what is not libel. A veterinary surgeon who was called an old hoot failed to got damages because, the court declared, “under no circumstances could a veterinary surgeon of Hesse he confused with an old hoot.” On the other hand, a chess played, who, on being beaten, angrily called his opponent an Englishman, was punished, not because it was worse'to c-al! his rival an Englishman than to call him an Italian or a Frenchman, but for the reason that “it is plain that ‘Eng.islimau’ was uttered with conscious aim to cause deep mental .suffering.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3
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159INSULTS THAT END IN COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3
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