Lynott v. Pearson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Dane A. Pearson, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in- favor of the plaintiff,entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of November, 1909, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint.
1DissentLaughlin, J.
This is an action for slander. The demurrer is upon "the ground that the complaint fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The plaintiff alleges that for a number of years she has been employed in various places in the city of New York “as a domestic,” and had become well known and acquired a reputation “ in said business for probity and fair dealing and uprightness of character ; ” that she is unmarried, chaste, and has always borne a good reputation; that on “ the 12th day of October, 1908, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, the defendant, Dane…
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