MOTION OVERRULED
—Press Association,)
\ • t £2000 Action for Alleged Libel
(By Telegraph
WELLINGTON, Last Night. A ruling that the occasion had been one qualified By privilege but privilege that could be destroyed by proof of malice, was given by the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court to-day after a motion for a non-suit in a libel action for £2000 damages brought by the New Zealand National Creditmen's Association (Wellington) Ltd., against Duns Hopeha Dimond, manager of the agency. For the defenee, Mr F- O'Leary moved for a non-suit on the grounds that the words were incapable of defamatory meaning. Libel consisted of fair cominent and that occasion one of qualified privilege. The Chief Justice held that prima facie there was no evidence of malice inasmuch as the motive of the defendant was to benefit itself. He provisionally overrnled the application for non-suit
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 5
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