Griebel v. Rochester Printing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ferdinand Griebel, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe, dismissing the complaint on the merits, on the 16th day of July, 1892, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Monroe Circuit, and also from an order bearing date the 6th day of June, 1892, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, J.:
This action was begun May 22, 1888, to recover damages for the publication by the defendant in its newspaper, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, of an article alleged to be libelous. April 21, 1888, the plaintiff made a complaint before the police justice of the city of Rochester charging that one Bartholomew Connors had obtained a watch from him by fraudulent representations and false pretenses. On this complaint a warrant was issued for the arrest of Bartholomew Connors, and he was arrested. On the 22d of April, 1888, the following article was published in defendant’s daily…
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