FORD LIBEL CASE

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 4

FORD LIBEL CASE

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Received Mondayq 7.10 p.m. \ NEW YORK, March 20. A Henry Ford's counsel has uit I nounced to Detroit that when Ford . takes the w'lness stand in the libcl1 suit he will testify that there is aJ band of Sapiro's friends which has' set out to exploit the farmers of this country and that later they; planned to exploit the wheat-1 growers of the world by obtaining; ! control of the output at its source. ' 1 Some idea of the expensiveness and widespread cliaracter of the suit can be gatliered from the fact that the defence has forty thousand1' type-written sheets of depositions15 containing ten million words taken down by a squad of lawyers who. have literally combed the country,! for a year seeking persons who: j will support the cliarges. The defence also has a hundred oral wit-. nesses who will be summoned at/ Ford's expehse from every part of the United States.