DAMAGES FOR LIBEL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1911, Page 3

DAMAGES FOR LIBEL

A CIIUISTCHUROH CASE. 1 PER PRESS ABBOT4A.TION.3 CMRISTCHCRCH, May 23. At the Supreme Court to-day Leonard Monk Isitt claimed £1000 from James Mawson Stewart, for alleged libel. The .statement of claim set out that the name of the plaintiff had been falsely and maliciously inserted in a list published on January sth, 1911, by defendant, as secretary of the committee of the Traders' Mutual Protection Association, in which were the. names of people to whom it was not advisable to give credit, and who could not, or would not, pay their just debts. The defence admitted the publication of plaintiff's name in the list, but denied that the insertion was falsely or maliciously made. Plaintiff, it was stated at the time, owed a sum of money to W. 11. Cook, chemist, who gave the name to defendant for insertion in the list. rt was also pleaded in defence that the list was privileged, in that it was for circulation among members of the association only. The jury awarded plaintiff £500, lint the law points were reserved.