SLANDER CASE SETTLED
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mvnm 1 — Mr Simpson and Mrs Arthur Sutherland REFERENCE TO DIVORCE
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(Kecejvea 13, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. The London JStar understands that Mr. Ernest Simpson 's slander action has been settled. The case will be "mentioned" in Couxt to-morrow. The case is one which Mr. Simpson is proceeding against Mrs. Arthur Sutherland, wife of Lieut-Colonel A. H. C. Sutherland, a'leging slander. The suit resulled from a remark aljegedly made bv Mrs. Sutherland and overheard by Mr, Simpson 's sister, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, at a London luneheon party, as follows: — "Simpson was well pajd for permitting the divorce to go through." It was understood, stated the Central News Agency recently, that England's most successful barrister, Sir^ Patrick Hastings, K.C., had been briefed by Mrs. Sutherland. Mr. Reginald Vaughan would represent Mr. Simpson.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 5
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140SLANDER CASE SETTLED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 5
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