Engel v. New York Evening Post Co.

The plaintiff urges that the verdict for the defendant in this suit- for libel was against the weight of evidence, and that the court erred in allowing the jury to consider the meaning of the libelous words in such a way that the justification proven was sufficient to permit a verdict for the defendant. The hurtful feature of the article was the intimation that the plaintiff, being a powerful political leader, protected vice in .the eighth assembly district for his own pecuniary advantage. As incidental, and perhaps giving point to the assertion, it was stated that he had been many times in…