Baumann v. Newspaper Enterprises, Inc.

In an action to recover damages for alleged libel, order granting plaintiff’s motion in part and striking out, as insufficient in law, the first and second complete defenses pleaded in defendant’s answer, insofar as appealed from, reversed on the law, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, without costs. It is our opinion that the allegations of truth contained in the pleaded defenses, while not broad enough to meet plaintiff’s interpretation of the statements contained in the article alleged to be libelous, are, nevertheless, broad enough to meet an interpretation which a…