Hollingsworth v. Spectator Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John E. Hollingsworth, from so much of an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 5th day of December, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, as overrules the plaintiff’s demurrer to paragraphs 4 and 7 of the defendant’s answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
This is an action for libel brought by John E. Hollingsworth to recover $10,000 damages alleged to have been caused by the publication of a certain article in an insurance paper called The Speetch tor, owned by the defendant corporation.
The 3d paragraph of the defendant’s answer sets up certain facts in mitigation of damages ; the 4th paragraph, to which the demurrer is interposed, denies each and every of the innuendoes set up by the plaintiff in his complaint, and alleges that such innuendoes are false and untrue and that the words used in the alleged libelous article had not and…
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