Nunnally v. Press Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Press Publishing Company, from Can interlocutory.judgment of "the Supreme. Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 15th day of February, 1905, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, sustaining the demurrer of ,the plaintiff to the -second and fourth • defenses set up in the amended answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
■ Three defamatory charges are contained in the newspaper articles which the plaintiff complains of as.libelous: First, a charge of fornication ■; second, a charge of larceny; and, third, a charge" of - murder by the administration of poison. <
The second defense set up in the answer consists of averments of fact which are stated to be pleaded in partial justification of the *11publication of that portion of the alleged libel charging the plaintiff with fornication. It contains nothing relative to the charge of larceny or the charge of murder.
The plaintiff demurred to the…
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