Robinson v. Evening Post Publishing Co.

The action is for an alleged libel in the publication of a news item. The first defense contains a denial of certain specified material allegations of the complaint; the second defense sets up as a separate and distinct defense that the defendant received the matter complained of in the usual course of its business from the Associated Press, a reputable news agency, then engaged in the business of supplying daily newspapers, in the city of New York and elsewhere, with news items; such article having been prepared by a regular news reporter of such Associated Press, who is a competent and…