Raines v. New York Press Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Monroe county. Action by John Raines against the New York Press Company, Limited, and another, for libel. From an order refusing to strikeout part of the complaint, defendants appeal. Modified.
1Opinion of the CourtWard, J.
The respondent (the plaintiff), John Raines, a member of the state senate, instituted an action against the defendants, claiming damages for- a libel alleged to have been committed upon him, by the Press, a daily newspaper published in the city of New York by the defendants, having a daily circulation of more than *46100,000 copies. The libel consisted in charges and statements made in that paper in its issue of April 18, 1895, to the effect that the plaintiff, with other senators, had been guilty of corrupt and improper conduct with reference to a bill pending before the legislature of the state…
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