Lesser v. International Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, International Trust Company and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of April, 1915, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff for six cents and granting a new trial on the ground of the insufficiency of the damages.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The action is for damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff as the result of an alleged libel published by the defendant in an amended petition in bankruptcy in Matter of M. G. Samuels & Co., which was a proceeding pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The defendants are the three petitioning creditors and their attorney. The alleged libel is as follows:
“Within four months next immediately preceding the filing of the said petition in bankruptcy and while insolvent as aforesaid, the said alleged bankrupt transferred and…
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