Lapetina v. Santangelo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff,-R. Louis Lapetina, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in- the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of. Uovember, 1907, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
This is an.appeal from an interlocutory judgment overruling the plaintiff’s demurrers in an action for libel. The demurrers are.to the first further defense in alleged justification, the secp.nd further defense in alleged justification and to the third and separate defense. *520The ground as to all-is insufficiency in law upon the face. The alleged lihel was the writing and publishing of the following' letter sent to Charles '-Oechler, Esq.,--an attorney at law : “ Your kind letter received, I am obliged write to you in this manner. If 1 have sent Mr. Knowles last evening in your office…
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