Ciffolillo v. Westchester County Publishers, Inc.

This is a motion pursuant to rule 106 of the Buies of Civil Practice for an order dismissing each of the three causes of action in the amended complaint on the ground that they do not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.

The causes of action are alleged to have arisen out of the publication of an article in the defendant’s newspaper, The Reporter Dispatch. Each cause of action sets forth that as a result of the publication, plaintiff was damaged in the sum of $25,000, but the demand for relief asks for only $25,000 thus indicating that each cause of action represents a…