Roberts v. Breckon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William II. Breckon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 18th day of March, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $375, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of December, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, William II. Breckon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 18th day of March, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $375, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of December, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action ivas brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff, by reason of the publication of a libel upon the plaintiff, instigated by the defendant, in the Corry Daily Leader, published in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
The plaintiff was a butter maker in a creamery at Clarence Center N. Y. He had resigned his position and was intending to move to Corry, Penn., and had packed his household goods and effects and had"billed them to Corry. The defendant was the president of this creamery. The plaintiff was indebted to the creamery when he *432left Clarence Center to some extent, and the defendant sought to collect it by means of an attachment made out at Clarence Center; but he had occasion to go to Buffalo to consult counsel in the matter, and when there he met Mr. TI. S. Braman, who was' a pharmacist in…
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