APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 223, 26 October 1909, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

Tlll'Tild TKOUBLES. By Telegraph.—Picas As»oi:uu ; oii. Wellington, Ocioiicr 2,3. Argument in the case Aoriuu v. (Stringer was continued to-day. .ur. jjunu , cited authorities at great length toaiiow that in directing the jury, me question | of libel or no libel depended upon the intent of the writer ol tile article, and that the judge, misdirected it. llic I jury .might, have louml that tin: words in themselves had no defamatory mean-

ing, but that the contention of tnc wilier was to make them delanmtory, and i no evidence could have been called by the defendant to show his intentiou was not to write defamatory. Wellington, Last Night. .Mr. Dunn continued argument in llic appeal ease ..Morion, v. Stringer, contending that the learned Judge was wrong in withdrawing the question of fair comment from the jury, also that I the damages were excessive.

-Mr. Skerretl, K.C., on behalf of respondents, stilted the facts of the ease at length, and contended that the jury was entitled to take the whole ut I the circumstances into consideration, and that under the circumstances the Ham-

ages were not excessive. No apology had been olleicd, and no attempt had iii-en made to ascertain Die real facts of the case, which would have allium l.lml the charge was absolutely false. Mr. Skerretl, referred to the newspaper report of Swiuliuriie v. the proprietor of the Melbourne Age, in which the Full Court of Victoria had refused to set aside a verdict of £.1500 given in a libel

action. The case will be continued to-morrow