ACTION FOR LIBEL
Invekcaroill, Monday. Is the Supreme. Court on Saturday Mr W. H. Palmer, lately Clerk of the R.M. Court and Licensing Bench at Gore, sought to recover £200 damages for libel from Mr W. P, Fraaer, editor of the Southern Standard. The libel consisted in certain comments in connection with a scene in the Gore Court-house between the Mayor and two other Justices, anil the statement that a report from tho police objecting to the granting of a license was not produced at tho proper time. In tho first instance the newspaper accused the plaintiff of partisanship, and in the second published an article headed "Very Suspicious." For the defence it was contended that the comments were fair and honest, and made in the public interest. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, with ests.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2514, 21 August 1888, Page 2
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137ACTION FOR LIBEL Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2514, 21 August 1888, Page 2
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