London, Mar. 12.
Mrs. Frances irene Lowick has been awarded £5,000 agreed damages and 4,000 guineas costs in the retrial of the action in which she sued her former employers, Mr. Philip Lazarus and his son, Adolph, for malicious prosecution, She was awarded £4,719 damages at the previous trial.
The present retrial was ordered by the Court of Appeal last June, when Lord Justice Greer criticised the judge's summing jp of the case at the Manchester Assizes, which he described as a speech for the plaintiff from beginning to end.
Mr. Lazarus and his son appealed en the grounds of misdirection and non-direction by Mr. Justice Atkinson.—Reuter.
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