Hoey v. New York Times Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, James J. Hoey, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of March, 1908, upon .the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the' 6th day of April, 1908, denying the plaintiff’s…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, James J. Hoey, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of March, 1908, upon .the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the' 6th day of April, 1908, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made .upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This in an action for a libel. In the year 1907 plaintiff was a resident of the borough of Manhattan, New York, and conducted business therein as a real estate broker and was a member of the Assembly for the thirteenth Assembly district. There was prior to the seventh day of March that year a bill entitled “ An Act to. amend the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, relative to the police department,” which was commonly known as the “Bingham Police Bill,” introduced in the'Assembly. On that day the…
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