Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. Ecclesine
The Superior Court of New York City
Appeal from order vacating order of arrest, and Appeal from order directing the complaint to be made more definite and certain.
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Appeal from order vacating order of arrest, and Appeal from order directing the complaint to be made more definite and certain. This was an action brought by the above-named plaintiffs against the above-named defendant, to recover $130,000, alleged damages, asserted to have been sustained by reason of divers alleged libellous publications of and concerning the plaintiffs, contained in a chart of Life Insurance Companies annually published by the defendant, and in which is embodied a brief synopsis of the annual returns of such companies organized or doing business in the state of New York,…
1Opinion of the Court
Freedman, J. (Special Term.)
This action is brought by the plaintiff, as a corporation, against the defendant, for the recovery of $130,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by reason of divers alleged libellous publications of and concerning the plaintiff, contained in a pamphlet (1) entitled “Life Insurance Chart,” annually published by the defendant *203and embodying a brief synopsis of the annual returns of Life Insurance Companies; and (2) also, in three advertisements, inserted in different public journals published in the city of New York, and inserted by the defendant with the view…
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