Cook v. . Conners
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered August 1, 1913, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon'a verdict directed by the court. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The recovery of a judgment in the Enquirer case is not a bar to the prosecution of this case.
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Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered August 1, 1913, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon'a verdict directed by the court. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The recovery of a judgment in the Enquirer case is not a bar to the prosecution of this case. Each publication of defamatory matter is a cause of action separate and complete in itself. (Fisher v. New Yorker Staats Zeitung, 114 App. Div. 824; Pollock on Torts, 215; Tillotson v.…
1Opinion of the CourtCollin, J.
The action is to recover damages for an alleged libel. The facts present a single question for us to determine. The defendant owned and published at the city of Buffalo, in the same building and, speaking comprehensively, with the same plant and operators, except as to editorial staffs, two newspapers, the one, the Buffalo Enquirer, issued in the afternoon, and the other, the Buffalo Courier, issued in the morning of each day. The alleged libel was published in substance and effect, though not in identical language, in the Buffalo Enquirer on August 27, 1910, and in the Buffalo Courier the…
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