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DEFENCE of the Defendants Constable & Co. Ltd and Charles Whittingham & Griggs (printers) Ltd. [Waterhouse & Co., Solicitors for Constable & Co.]
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHANCERY DIVISION (Mr. Justice Maugham)
[Correspondence concerning Constable & Co.'s preparation for the libel suit brought by Aleister Crowley against Nina Hamnett and the publication of her book Laughing Torso.]
Waterhouse & Co. Solicitors 10 & 12 Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2.
2 December 1932
CROWLEY
v.
CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD & OTHERS
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHANCERY DIVISION Mr. Justice Maugham
1932 C. No. 3651
BETWEEN: EDWARD ALEXANDER CROWLEY Plaintiff and CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD. Defendant Charles Whittingham & Griggs (Printers) Ltd. and Nina Hamnett
D E F E N C E of the Defendants Constable & Co. Ltd. and Charles Whittingham & Griggs (Printers) Ltd.
1. These Defendants admit that they are respectively the publishers and printers of the book referred to in paragraph 1 of the Statement of Claim.
2. These Defendants deny that the words set out in paragraph 2 of the Statement of Claim or any of them are defamatory.
3. If the words set out in the first part of paragraph 2 of the Statement of Claim are defamatory (which is denied) these Defendants say that the said words are true in substance and in fact.
P A R T I C U L A R S
The story set out in the said words was told by the Plaintiff to the Defendant Nina Hamnett before the publication complained of and was represented by the Plaintiff to the said Defendant as being true.
4. If the words set out in the second part of paragraph 2 of the Statement of Claim are defamatory (which is denied) these Defendants say that the said words are true in substance and in fact.
5. These Defendants deny the Plaintiff has been injured in his character or reputation by either of the publications complained of in the Statement of Claim.
CECIL W. LILLEY
DELIVERED the 2nd day of December 1932 by WATERHOUSE & CO. of 10 & 12, Bishopsgate, E.C.2. Solicitors for the Defendants Constable & Co. Ltd. and Charles Whittingham & Griggs (Printers) Ltd.
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