Totero v. World Telegram Corp.

Plaintiff moves for dismissal for insufficiency of the separate defense and the partial defense contained in the answer of defendant, the World Telegram Corporation. The action in libel is based upon an article entitled “A New Appraisal of Psychiatry”, written by defendant Buark and published in the September 13, 1962 issue of the World Telegram and Sun. The defenses are addressed to the entire article, although plaintiff now asserts he complains only of the following portion:

“ The fad — and I use that word in the sense of ‘ craze of psychoanalysis and psychiatry seems to have abated somewhat…