London, Nov. 24.
London, Nov. 21.
The appeal of the wholesale distributors, W. H. Smith & Son, Ltd., Jagainst the £3,000 sterling damages awarded to the Sun Life Assurance Society of Canada, was dismissed "Joy. the Court of Appeal to-day.
'The case, which came up iit June, concerned. Tibellous statements regarding the Sun' Life Assurance Society which were published in a [periodical and indicated on a poster which Messrs. Smith é& Son distributed to their customers.
Defendants contended that impossible for them to organise of the journals or through their:
The result of the by-election "in Ihe 'Rusholme division,, Manchester, Jeaused by. the tion Frank Boyd: Merriman, 0.B2) 16 jon his appointment as president 0 the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the flight, Court of Justice, has resulted im the election fof the' Conservative candidate, Int. Radford, who polled 13,904 votes, Mr. Woods, Labour, candidate, received 11,008 votes, while the Tnfaependient Liberal candidate had to bet content with a mere 2603 votes.
This means" that there, the constituency still being epcesented by the Conservatives.
"A special jury found them guilty lof negligence for not knowing that these posters contained libellous Lord Justice Serutton said to-day that, although Messrs, Smith & Son might be compelled to send out porters "and newspapers without Kknowine their contents, the jury Imight think that they were careless if the bookstall manager who saw the posters did not exercise diseretion and consult the head office on
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