Gleason v. Spota
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for defamation, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Delaney, J.), entered March 7, 1991, which dismissed the complaint as time-barred.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The complaint in this action alleges that the defendant sent anonymous "hate mail” to the plaintiff’s employer in September and October of 1978. The plaintiff contends that by fraudulently concealing his authorship of the defamatory material, the defendant wrongfully precluded him from timely commencing this action and that…
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