Legal Opinion
Townes v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 15, 1905PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal by the defendants, the Hew York Evening Journal Publishing Company and .another, 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 21st day of March, 1905, mpon the,decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings i County Special Term, overruling the defendants’ demurrers to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The defendants appeal from an interlocutory judgment overruling demurrers to a complaint which charges that they published of and concerning the plaintiff the following alleged libel:
“ Wizard Inventor declares he will protect the name of ‘ Edison ’ and pursue the men who misled his son with last dollar. Edison calls them crooks. He got into the hands of a lot of keen-witted adventurers. The name of ‘ Edison ’ sounded like the chink of gold to those gold-brick men. Mind you, I’m calling them gold-brick men, and that’s exactly what they are. They are crooks of the most dangerous…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fleischmann v. . BennettNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
3Cited by5 opinions
- Jackson v. Consumer Publications, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1939
- Hehmeyer v. Harper's Weekly Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- Lyons v. New York Herald Co.New York Supreme Court · 1907
- Shaw v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Shaw v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905