Legal Opinion

Kayata v. Ontra

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 5, 1913PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal by the defendant, Ernest Ontra, from part of an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 31st day of May, 1913.

1Opinion of the Court

Rich, J.:

This appeal is from an order of the Special Term denying the defendant’s motion for a bill of particulars in an action for slander. The slanders are alleged to have been uttered in conversations and discourses “with merchants in said Borough and City with whom plaintiff already had and contemplated business relations” “on or about the 1st day of April, 1912, and on divers dates about that time during the months of April and May.” It is alleged that by reason of the utterance of such slanders “ a number of merchants and persons, and in particular the copartuership firm of Samuel…

2Cited by1 opinion

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