Venner v. Belmont
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the Nassau county clerk’s office on the 16th day of April, 1913. Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, on opinion of Mr. Justice Blackmar at Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J., Carr, Rich, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred.
The following is the opinion of the Special Term:
Blackmar, J.:
This is not a difficult and extraordinary ease within the meaning of the section of the Code* authorizing an extra allowance. It is an ordinary action for a libel. The rules of law governing it are simple and elementary. It is true that the defendant has expended large sums of money in investigating the past life of the plaintiff, seeking matter to plead in justification, and has succeeded in discovering enough to enable him to set forth in his answer a biography of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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