LIBEL ACTION.
Wellingon, Last Night. Allegations of false and defamatory statements were made in a libel action which commenced at the Supreme Court to-day, when James Samuel Monteeiuo, also known as Jim Robinson, sued the newspaper “Truth” for £5Ol damages. The plaintiff claimed that he played the piano continuously for a hundred hours and ten minutes.. The newspaper published an article in which it declared the plaintiff had slept for twenty out of' the hundred hours and other statements were.also published including one that plaintiff was sent to gaol for assault. The defendant paper admitted publication but denied the extracts were either false or defamatory and submitted they were fair comment.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19241113.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2810, 13 November 1924, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
111LIBEL ACTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2810, 13 November 1924, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in