£25 DAMAGES
FOR DEFAMATORY LIBEL
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.!
CHRISTCHURCH, July 4
A. claim for £IOO as damages in libel -action was made against Sun Newspapers Ltd., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by Mrs Jean Cunningham. 'l’he case arose out of -the publication of a paragraph in the Christchurch “Sun.” Mr Li. A. Acting presided. Plaintiff claimed that defendants had published the following statement : “T notice that a Miss Jean duck was entertained the other evening at a. china party. She is getting married at Easter. I hope they don’t give her a setting of Easter eggs.” Tlie plaintiff claimed that the words were libellous and defamatory. They had appeared in the humorous column. Tlie Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff for £25 sterling, holding that the paragraph was iu a way defamatory.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1930, Page 5
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