DAMAGES FOR SLANDER
WOMAN’S CHARACTER ASSAILED SUBSTANTIAL SU36 AWARDED Judgment for £25 was given by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.. at the Magistrate’s ' °urt this morning in a slander action Sf £SO damages brought by Annie Jttoway, a married woman, represented by Mr. Mervyn Adams, against * watersider H. Racklander, who, it ~\ aa fi aid, falsely represented on May ". that “he had been carrying on vnh the woman for six or seven Months and that she was a prostitute.” Defendant. who had lodged a for a similar amount on Y 1 ® grounds that Mrs. Ottoway had aeramed his character by calling him a ibief and a person of immoral eharact*r, did not appear to defend the and his own was struck out. _ was ordered to pay £8 costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 15
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127DAMAGES FOR SLANDER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 15
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