GENERAL SUES PRIVATE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 9 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL SUES PRIVATE.

Judgment has now been given in the somewhat curious"; case brought before the Civil Court of Belfort, when 9. French general sueét a. private for 200,000 francs damages and ten insertions of the judgmentdin the newspapers. The general, who was relieved of his «aonimand during the War, attributecl his dismissal to evidence given by the private with regard to a. luncheon conversation eat the house of 2- Belfort manufacturer, at which fifey were both present, When, as the private asserted, the general mafie reniarks contrary to military discipline.

The Court has dismissed the suit, ana’ ordered the_ generéil to pay costs. It stated that seven if (which is not provecl) the genez'al’s dismissal was the direct consequence of the sfafémenis "made -by tlie priirizfc; "th-ei 'la‘£te‘r‘ were not statement§ whicli were volunteered, but were elicited T 5 the course of 9. I.~egulal'Vnlil'ltm~y inquiry, at which the p;-i.yate- ma not the_l°i"gllt. to. re£use“€ evidene‘e;-- ‘ V