Legal Opinion
Morgan v. Halberstadt
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 13, 1894No. 62PublishedCited by 24 opinions
In Error to tbe Circuit Court .of the United States for the Southern District of Yew York. This was an action by Sigismundo E. Halberstadt against Henry A. Morgan, as president of the Yew York Times, for libel. There was a verdict for plaintiff for |15,000 damages, and judgment thereon, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
Tlie complainant sets out four causes of action, based on separate articles, which appeared in the defendant’s newspaper on September 5, September 30, October 10, and ^November 1, 1891, respectively.
The first of these is as follows:
“This is the situation in the Beers’ Mutual Admiration Society at Broadway and Leonard slreet. Everything is done to avoid publicity and to screen the (ruth. Not one of the twenty men composing the board of trustees, save those two or three who hold executive offices, knew of the Merz-bacher defalcation until the Times exposed it. Not one of…
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