SUPREME COURT
DAMAGES FOR LIBEL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night, Jn the Supreme Court to-day, Cecil William Branigan, fields inspector, of Ashburton, was awarded .6200 damages against Oeorge William Leadley, a farmer of Elgin, for a libel contained in a letter to the Secretary for Agrisulture, plaintiff claiming that the- following words: "placing him in the power and at the mercy of some whisky-noaking crawler, who probably never did an honest day's work in his life," referred to him, and meant that he was a drunkard and loafer, and unfitted to hold his office of fields inspector or any other responsible position.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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103SUPREME COURT Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1919, Page 5
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