Woodhouse v. New York Evening Post, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, New York Evening Post, Inc., and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of February, 1922, denying defendants’ motion to compel plaintiff to severally state and number the causes of action set forth in the amended complaint so that each publication therein mentioned shall constitute a separate cause of action.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This action is brought to recover the sum of $1,000,000 damages claimed to have been sustained by reason of the composing, printing and publishing of certain libelous matter by the defendant corporation in a newspaper published by it in the city of New York, such publication being alleged to have been made at the direct and special instance, request and direction of the individual defendants.
The question involved in this appeal is whether more than one cause of action is set forth in the complaint herein. Six different publications in the Evening Post of matter affecting plaintiff…
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