Van Wyck v. . Aspinwall
New York Court of Appeals
. Appeal from the Superior Court of New-York city. The complaint was for a libel upon the plaintiff an examiner and inspector of drugs for the port of New-York, under the appointment of the secretary of the treasury.
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. Appeal from the Superior Court of New-York city. The complaint was for a libel upon the plaintiff an examiner and inspector of drugs for the port of New-York, under the appointment of the secretary of the treasury. The defendants answered that they were trustees of the College of Pharmacy in the city of New-York, which was incorporated among other things, as declared by its charter, for the purpose of cultivating and improving pharmacy, and of making known the best modes of preparing medicines and their compounds, with a view to the public benefit. Complaints were made to the board of…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The publication of which the plaintiff complains was made by the defendants as a committee of the board of trustees of the College of Pharmacy, in the city of New-York. The subject matter of the publication was pertinent to the object for which the committee had been appointed. The investigation which the defendants had been directed to make, and the result of which is contained in the report, was within the purposes for which the College of Pharmacy had been incorporated, and involved matters of public interest. Complaints had been made to the trustees of the college that spurious and…
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