Holm v. Holm
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Frits V. Holm, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of April, 1911, sustaining the defendants’ demurrer to the amended complaint in an action for libel upon the ground that the complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The complaint, after alleging the plaintiff’s ancestry, education, societies and associates, avers that “ Plaintiff is and at all times hereinafter mentioned was a noted tourist, newspaper correspondent, traveller, writer and lecturer of recognized ability. * * * That early in 1907, the plaintiff as the result of his worldwide travels and extensive study, particularly while in the far east, learned of the existence of a monolithic tablet or monument containing valuable religious- data and inscriptions and claimed to have been the work of the Nestorian Monks in the Eighth Century,…
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