Guenther v. Ridgway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Eidgway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 5th day of November, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $17,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of November, 1914, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, P. J.:
The plaintiff was the editor of the Financial World, a weekly periodical having a circulation of 12,000, published in New York by the Guenther Publishing Company, of which he was the president and treasurer and the owner of a majority of its capital stock; and he brought this action to recover damages for an alleged libel in the September, 1911, issue of the Adventure, a monthly periodical published by the defendant.
We are of opinion that it was error to receive a typewritten record on appeal in Kellogg v. United States to impeach the testimony given by the witness Eberman,…
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- Edsall v. BrooksThe Superior Court of New York City · 1864
- Town Topics Publishing Co. v. CollierAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Hess v. SparksSupreme Court of Kansas · 1890
- Holmes v. JonesNew York Supreme Court · 1888
- People v. DavisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
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