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PUNISH FRENCH TURF LIBEL Slanderers of Owner Coulon and Trainer Filippi Are Sentenced by Court A sensational turf libel case has just been settled in Paris at the expense of the libelers libelersMay May 28 1921 a slanderous sheet bearing the name of La Cote Reelle was widely distributed among the patrons of the race track at Enghien The paper was chiefly devoted to slanderous and defamatory mat ¬ ter regarding Henri Coulon a prominent French FilippiWhen owner and his trainer M Filippi When the case came up for final action by the Criminal Court of Appeals in Paris recently the proprietors of the libelous paper Blin and Delacourt were sentenced to thirty days in prison In addition to this sentence fines of 100 each were assessed against the offenders and the plaintiffs were awarded damages as follows H Coulon 4000 and M Filippi 2000 2000In In addition to this the defendants were ordered to publish retractions in ten French newspapers
