SUPREME COURT.
ALLEGED SLANDER. By Telegraph—Press Association. PaJmerston N., Tuesday. The Supreme Court, the Chief Justice (Sir R. Stout) presiding, was occupied to-day in the slander case, C. A. W. Monckton v. Byron Brown, a. claim for £1250 damages. A jury of twelve was empanelled. Counsel for plaintiff, Mr. Morison, in opening the case, said the plaintiff was a sheepifarmer, and defendant a storekeeper, both in the Otaki district. It was alleged that the slander affected plaintiff's personal credit and was in respect of transactions in promissory notes. Plaintiff had endorsed a note of an employee. Strawbridse, payable to defendant, and after various renewals it had been dishonored, the notice of dishonor arriving during plaintiff's absence. Counsel alleged that the slanders were uttered in connection with the transactions to various persons during the period' from December to June las*. The hearing is not concluded.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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144SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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