Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Pratt
New York Supreme Court
Decided July 25, 1940PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLapham, J.
The defendants move to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action in slander and libel.
The complaint contains eight separate causes of action. The first five are directed against the defendants Ransom and George Pratt and the last three are directed against unknown members of the Corning Bar Association of Corning, N. Y., who are designated by fictitious names. The first cause of action, which is representative of all in most essentials save for the time and place of making the defamatory statements and the person to whom the statements were made, alleges in substance that…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Mase v. ReillyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
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