Morrison v. Smith
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lillian Coleman Morrison, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of December, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The action is for libel, and the complaint avers that in defendants’ magazine was printed the following advertisement: “ Illustrated new book. Up-to-date. The experience of a giddy typewriter girl in New York. Typewritten. GOOD is no name for it. Sent in plain wrappers, postpaid, on receipt of 25c in silver or stamps. Dell Book Co., 119 Flournoy St., Chicago.” It. was further averred that “ accompanying these words and completing the advertisement was the picture of a young and comely woman, and *207this picture was a likeness of the plaintiff,” and that “ the meaning of this…
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