McCue v. Survey Associates Inc.

This is an action brought against the defendant Pauline Goldmark, as authoress, and the other defendants, as publishers and distributors, of a book which it is alleged contained defamatory matter concerning the plaintiff. The defendant Goldmark answers separately, while the other two defendants unite in a joint answer. In both answers are incorporated a defense of justification and a partial defense in mitigation of damages, which are alike in both answers. To these defenses the plaintiff demurs upon the ground that they are insufficient in law upon the face thereof and that the facts therein…