Fitzgerald v. Piette

The following opinion was filed April 3, 1923:

Eschweiler, J.

The defendant argues that the demurrers interposed to the two causes of action should have been sustained, it having been conceded by plaintiff, as appears from the record before us, and the contrary is not here urged, that the words relied upon in each of the separate causes of action did not import the charge of a commission of a crime by the plaintiff.

Construing the entire language of the first cause of action, though embraced in two distinct statements, yet all part of one address, made by defendant to his congregation on July…