Schoepflin v. Coffey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Michael J. Coffey, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 21st day of November, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of November, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J. :
On the 16th day of May, 1895, there appeared in certain newspapers published in the cities of Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo a telegraphic dispatch relating to the plaintiff and purporting to have been sent from the city of Albany, which it is claimed was false and defamatory. The article as published in these several papers was the same in substance and it read as follows, viz.: “ It was stated in the Senate this afternoon by Senator Coffey of Kings that the two indictments have been issued against Assemblyman Campbell of Kings and Schoepflin of Erie, in connection with…
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- Youmans v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Holmes v. . JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Olcott v. . CarrollNew York Court of Appeals · 1868
- Thomas v. SmithNew York Supreme Court · 1894
- Hughes v. City of AuburnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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- Conley v. BlinebryNew York Supreme Court · 1899