Van Ingen v. Star Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Star Company, from a judgment ■of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Eew York in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant John A. Cockerill, ■entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 9th day of February, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury. The action was brought against fictitious defendants in whose place the Star Company and John A. Cockerill, by whom an .answer was served, were substituted as defendants.
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Appeal by the defendant, The Star Company, from a judgment ■of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Eew York in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant John A. Cockerill, ■entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 9th day of February, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury. The action was brought against fictitious defendants in whose place the Star Company and John A. Cockerill, by whom an .answer was served, were substituted as defendants. A verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff against the Star Company, and the •■complaint was dismissed as to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff for $1,500. Eo motion was made for a new trial, and the case now before us is an appeal from that judgment, and presents questions arising only upon the exceptions taken on the trial.
The action is for libel, the appellant being the proprietor of a newspaper published in the city of Eew York, called “ The Morning Advertiser.” On the morning of Eovember Y, 1892, this newspaper published what purported to be a telegram from London, which in effect charged the plaintiff with being at the head…
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