Alleged Slander Case.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1904, Page 2

Alleged Slander Case.

TlVr IM'i'ss Association.) MAIMUU, I-VI). :i. 'i'liL* Supivtne Court was octvipiin! all this ufU'rnoo'ii in luniring" « civil action Tluvinas Karl ivinJS'ay v, Abraham ami Williams, LUI., a claim i'or .CIUOU Tor alli'gtd slanvder, The slarKk'i* was Ma'id to havo liwn coataiiic.il in a k'tU»r si-nL Ity tlu» I'liiiJant coiupaii.v to the munager ol' tliv N«'\v '/valaud LoaJi and Mei'cuntik* Agency Co., ijfd., at Napier, by whom Liwi»ay is ompl-oyfcl, aiul cliarg'ing thv latter with atU-mpt-in«? lt> sell slveep at 11s (id, oi'kTeU lo him ill lis and stomal isiny, such aa act «.s "sharp practice." Tlu>"defendants' jilea in elTevt .lonied that the letler containod any .such impiitaiiwi as was sought u> he const ru«l into it, or that ii' it did thv alk'galio'ns wero Jiiadv bona iide in the discliui'^ 1 ol' thfir tlirly wnid not maliciously, noi' with intent to injnro I'lk* j)liviuti/T, a led wa.s thvrefoi'O S-ir William Hussell pvv i'\'ick'nce on heluill' wt the phvintilV. alter 'hearing which tho dolenfdanls-' pk«a. was 'anKMiKicvl to out* of ijiivileg-e, u-nd t-luit no malice was iutemU'd. Evidence was by Messrs 11. If. Uussell, slice]) farmer, aiwl I). A. Baxter, local manag'er of thy N'vw Z-ea land I .oiin aivd Mercantile Agency Co., amd the case was adjourned.