Daly v Irish Transport and General Workers' Union

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1926
• Date: 01 January 1926
• Docket Number: (1923. No. 11,308.)
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)

S. C.,

Daly

and

Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and others

Libel - Innuendo - Plea of no libel - Whether innuendo covered.

In an action for libel, the plaintiff having set out the words complained of in a separate paragraph in his statement of claim, alleged in another paragraph that the words were meant and understood to bear the meanings attached to them in two separate innuendoes. The defences pleaded were: (1) a traverse of the publication; (2) a plea that in their ordinary and natural...