Note 13 — Chapter IV

This libel action was based upon the posting by the defendant of two large boards (on his premises at the corner of Oxford Street and Holles Street) bearing respectively the words, “16 and 17, Holles Street, Lord Howard de Walden’s Monument of Iniquity,” and, “In the Holles Street Drama, the young Baron is discovered behind the curtain, pulling the wires for the imprisonment of his old tenant.” The defendant admitted that he had nothing against the plaintiff personally; he said that he wished to draw attention to his grievance against the managers of the Howard de Walden Estate. In the result, judgment was entered for the plaintiff.