Goldberg v. Coldwell Banker, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for libel, the defendants appeal from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Marbach, J.), entered February 21, 1989, as denied their motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.
The question of whether particular words are reasonably susceptible of a defamatory meaning is to be resolved by the court in the first instance (see, Aronson v Wiersma, 65 NY2d 592, 593-594; James v Gannett Co., 40…
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