A CHINESE SLANDER ACTION.
Per Press Association. Dunkdin, February 17. The Supreme Court was engaged all day in hearing the case in which Yeung | Chung claimed £5Ol damages from Kum I You, for alleged slander in repeatedly , telling a constable that plaintiff was suf- . fering from leprosy, with the result that j the constable eventually reported the : matter, and plaintiff was isolated foi j several days. Plaintiff sold groceries j round the district and was thus to some extent competing with defendant, who was a general merchant at Alexandra, and on this ground malice was pleaded. A verdict was given foi; £125 damages and
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 43, 18 February 1903, Page 4
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104A CHINESE SLANDER ACTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 43, 18 February 1903, Page 4
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