LIBEL CASE.
BERTLING v. NORTON VERDICT FOR £I,OOO.
By Telegraph- Press Association WELLINGTON, March 18.
Tne case in which Albert Ernest Louis Bertling, superintendent of the Wellington Zoo, claimed £2,000 damages for libel from John Norton, proprietor of the newspaper "New Zealand Truth," was concluded to-day in the Supreme Court after a three days' trial. The jury found that plaintiff had been libelled and awarded him £I,OOO, The jury was an hour considering its verdict, and it added to its verdict a rider that the evidence had not only failed to establish the charges against plaintiff, but bad fully proved bis competency for the post he holds. Judgment was entered for plaintiff for £I.OOO damages. An order was granted to stay execution for four days, pending an application for a Dew trial on the grounds of a misdirection by His Honour the Chief Justice before whom (and a special jury) the case was heard.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9998, 19 March 1910, Page 5
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154LIBEL CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9998, 19 March 1910, Page 5
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