Shenkman v. O'Malley

This is a motion to strike out various complete and partial defenses as insufficient in law, and to strike various paragraphs from the answer as irrelevant, redundant and prejudicial.

The action is brought by Samuel Shenkman, a physician and neurosurgeon, against one Walter J. O’Malley, President of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club, to recover damages for a slander claimed to have been uttered by defendant. The language complained of accused plaintiff of having performed ‘ * what will probably prove to have been an unnecessary second operation ” on the hand of Boy Campanella, a…