Remsen v. Bryant

Gaynor J.

The substance of the defamatory publication is that the “ language and actions ” of the plaintiff, a layman, in *239preaching at revival meetings to the Methodist congregation of the village of St. James at their place of worship was so “ reprehensible ” that it provoked a noisy crowd to surround him as he was about to get into hi's wagon at the close of one of the said meetings to go away from the said village to- his home, and pelt him with both fresh and stale eggs, and thus drive him away from the place.

■The defendants pleaded the truth in defense; but suffice it to say that they…