Crandall v. Jacob
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Julius Jacob, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 15th day of June, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for an order vacating an order of arrest. The action was brought to recover damages for an alleged slander.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The order of arrest was granted upon a verified complaint and the affidavits of the plaintiff and one Dumas. The complaint set out four causes of action, alleged positively and not upon information and belief. The first cause of action stated the defamatory language as follows: “ You (meaning plaintiff) cheated Swayne, but you (meaning plaintiff) aint going to cheat me ” (meaning defendant), and alleged that Swayne was a person formerly in the employ of the E. V. Crandall Company, of which the plaintiff was president, and that the plaintiff had been “ damaged in his good name,…
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