Legal Opinion
Ostrowe v. Lee
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 24, 1931PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
The complaint states, or attempts to state, two causes of action, one for libel and the other for slander. In the first, the plaintiff charges that the defendant composed a letter accusing the plaintiff of the crime of larceny; that he dictated this letter to his stenographer; that the stenographer, in obedience to his orders, read the notes and transcribed them; and that the letter so transcribed was received by the plaintiff through the mails. In the second cause of action, the plaintiff charges that a like defamatory charge was made over the telephone.
The defendant concedes…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Gambrill v. SchooleyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1901
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