Legal Opinion
Briarcliff Lodge Hotel, Inc. v. Citizen-Sentinel Publishers, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 22, 1932PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrane, J.
As the first, second and third defenses set up in the answers to these libel actions have been stricken out, as insufficient at law, it is necessary for us to assume their allegations to be true, in considering whether or not they are the proper answers to the allegations in the complaint. The following, then, is the narration of facts according to which the defendants are to be adjudged in libel.
The plaintiff conducted in the village of Briarcliff Manor, Westchester county, a hotel known as Briarcliff Lodge. For more than a year prior to the publication alleged in the complaint it had…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hoeppner v. Dunkirk Printing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1930
3Cited by80 opinions
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- Holy Spirit Ass'n for Unification of World Christianity v. New York Times Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1979
- Bose Corporation v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1982
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