Block v. Nussbaum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louis Block, from so much of .an order, of the Supreme Court, made at the Yew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Yew York on the 31st day of December, 1911, resettling a prior order, as overrules demurrers .to the first and second separate defenses set up in the answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This is an action for libel. The complaint is based upon a letter dictated by the defendant to a stenographer employed by him and written out in typewriting and read over by said stenographer before being signed by the defendant and thereafter-sent through the United States mails to the person to whom it was addressed, then acting as attorney for the plaintiff, who thereupon read the same.
The portion of the letter complained of is as follows: “In respect to proposition of purchase of stock in the Universal Sanitary Appliance Company of Mr. Biley and myself at the outset I want to…
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