Brown v. . Tregoe

Hjscock, Ch. J.

This action is one of libel and a motion was made to dismiss the complaint on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. This motion was granted upon the grounds, first, that the action was brought to recover damages to a business owned and conducted by a corporation rather than to plaintiff individually, and second, that the article complained of was not libelous per se. We are not able to accept the view thus taken although it is not strange that the courts should have been misled by the rather confused assembly in the complaint of…