Owen v. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of May, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order bearing' •date April 21, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial, :.made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
Action to recover damages for an alleged libel claimed to have been published by the defendant,, a corporation. The act complained of was committed by the defendant’s general manager. The libel consisted in the dictation.of a letter by the defendant’s general manager to a young lady employed by the corporation as, a stenographer and typewriter in the private office of the general manager. The letter was written in reference to the business of the corporation,, and had relation to a small sum of money missing from the cash drawer, and the letter expressed a suspicion that the money…
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