Twiggar v. Ossining Printing & Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Ossining Printing and Publishing Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 11th day of December, 1913, overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
The action is libel. The defendant’s demurrer that bhe complaint did not state sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action should have been sustained. The complaint is that Carpenter began an action against this plaintiff for negligent services as a dentist, laying his damages at $1,000, in which this plaintiff answered by denial, that issue was joined, that the cause was noticed for trial and a note of issue was filed, but that the cause had not been reached for trial, and that the defendant thereupon, in a specified issue of its newspaper, “ seeking to injure the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Reporters' Ass'n of America v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Mattice v. . WilcoxNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Tobias v. HarlandNew York Supreme Court · 1830
- McNamara v. . GoldanNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Foot v. BrownNew York Supreme Court · 1811
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