Hinrichs v. Butts
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal "by the defendant, Thomas W. Butts, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 15th day of December, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The defendant moved at Special Term for judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint, contending that although the plaintiff seeks to recover for an alleged libel, the complaint fails to state a cause of action.
It appears that the plaintiff was in the employ of the United States Mail Chute Equipment Company, and the manager of its New York office. The alleged libelous words are contained in a letter written "by the defendant to the equipment company. In that letter the defendant refers to the plaintiff as “ the venomous incompetent creature who has charge of your office here and…
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