Marks v. Jaffa
The Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo
Action by Rudolph Marks against Joseph Jaffa to restrain the publication by defendant of a picture of plaintiff in a newspaper, of which defendant is editor. Plaintiff moves to continue the injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtMcADAM, J.
The plaintiff, an actor by profession, is now undergoing a course of studies in the law school of the university *909preparatory to admission to the bar. There is another actor by the name of Mogulesko, equally well known as the plaintiff. The defendant is the editor of a newspaper called “Der Wachter,” published in this city, and extensively patronized. The defendant devised a scheme by which he was to publish in his paper a picture-of the two actors, with an invitation to the readers of his journal to vote with the view to determining who was the more popular of the two. The plaintiff declined…
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