Legal Opinion
Kirkman v. Westchester Newspapers, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 17, 1941PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCohn, J.
The action is in libel. Plaintiffs are Local Union No. 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, an unincorporated association consisting of 17,000 members, and sixteen of the union’s officials.
The first cause of action is brought in behalf of the union; each of the remaining sixteen causes of action is brought, respectively, in behalf of a different official of the union. The union seeks recovery of damages for itself, because the article complained of holds it and its members up to public scorn, hatred and ridicule and greatly injures the union and its members in their…
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