Cohen v. New York Times Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The New York Times. Company, from an interlocutory" judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of December, 1911, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
JENKS, P. J. :
The plaintiff complains for libel in that defendant published of him in its newspaper false and defamatory matter “under the heading c Died — Brooklyn: Cohen—Bealey [sic\, 133 St. Marks Avenue, May 6,’ meaning and intending to mean and to convey thereby to the reading public the information that this plaintiff had died. That the matter so published was and is false and untrue and subjected the plaintiff to general scorn, ridicule and contempt, thereby causing him considerable annoyance and mental pain and suffering,” to his damage $10,000. The defendant appeals from an…
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