Rogers v. Butler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted.— Appeal from an order denying a motion for a change of venue from New York county to Erie county.—
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The action is to recover damages for a libel against the defendant as the owner, editor and proprietor of a paper called the Buffalo Evening News, published in the city of Buffalo. The plaintiff alleges that the said newspaper was widely circulated and sold in large numbers by the defendant and was extensively read by all classes of people in the city of Buffalo and throughout the. State of New York and the United States of America. There is no allegation of any publication in the county of New York. The answer admits the circulation and publication of the newspaper as alleged,…
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