MASSEY APPEAL
TO PRIVY COUNCIL. Received This Morning, 12.10 o'clock LONDON, May 19. Lord Atkinson, in delivering judgment in' the appeal case Massey v. New Zealand Times, said that the question turned., as to whether the cai> toon applied to Mr Massey personally, and whether it attacked his private character. Dealing with the paragraph headea "A Poisonous Pamphlet," while the paragraph exculpated Mr MaSsey arid his colleagues from circulating it, it inculpated the party by making allegations of dishonesty, fraud and deceit. Plaintiff's accusation of Tammany-ism was political warfare and fair comment. He regretted the absence of a full report of Sir John Findlay'is speech, when the paragraph was published. An order was clearly established to which lie he exhorted the Opposition to hitch their waggon. On the evidence the Supreme Court's decision must stand.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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135MASSEY APPEAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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