New York Society for the Suppression of Vice v. Macfadden Publications, Inc.

The action is in libel. The complaint has been sustained by the Appellate Division. I am, therefore, bound by the decision of the Special Term, affirmed on appeal, that “ The whole intent of the article is defamatory and the statement is made several times that the society engineers cases in order to receive fifty per cent of the fines. The purport of the article is that the plaintiff engineers or brings about the commission of crime in order to profit financially from the fines imposed.” (N. Y. Soc. for Suppression of Vice v. MacFadden Pub., Inc., 129 Misc. 408, 415; affd., 222 App. Div.…