Triggs v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Sun Printing and Publishing Association, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the • county of New York on the 20th day of. October, 1903, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J. :
The action is for a libel. There is no special damage alleged, and by a demurrer to the complaint the defendant raises the single question as to whether the article concerning the plaintiff is libelous per se. The plaintiff in his complaint alleges that he was and still is, “and at all 'times hereinafter mentioned, and for more than seven years last past (has been) an instructor or teacher in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and was duly practicing his profession at the said University of Chicago; ” that he was…
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