Viele v. Gray

Daly, F. J.

The complaint avers that a scandalous, criminal, and obscene libel, was published by some person unknown to’ the plaintiff, of and concerning Messrs. Olmstead and Vaux, who had submitted a plan for the improvement of the Central Paik, and the editor of the Evening Post, being an obscene caricature, a copy of which is annexed to the complaint, and that the defendant at a meeting'of, and in the hearing of the commissioners of the Central Park, referring to this caricature, said of the plaintiff: “ He is the author of it, I know it.” The first objection raised by the demurrer is, that…