Legal Opinion
Campbell v. New York Evening Post, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 31, 1927PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
The alleged libel consists in the publication of and concerning the plaintiff by the defendant of an article which, under headlines:
“ Healer and Inventor Face Swindle Charge.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols Says They Took $16,000 from Her Through Fraud,”
stated of plaintiff, widely known as a Christian Science practitioner, that she was named as a codefendant with one Canton, a prominent inventor of remarkable devices, in a suit filed in the Supreme Court by attorneys for Mrs. Elizabeth S. Nichols, a wealthy widow, to recover $9,000, alleged to have been invested by her in a company promoted by…
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