Wright v. Johnson

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered September 23, 1991, which, in an action for defamation, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The action involves statements by a shareholder in a City-sponsored residential cooperative corporation at a meeting of shareholders to the effect that plaintiff, the corporation’s president, was not diligent in paying certain taxes. Assuming the statements in issue were assertions of fact and not mere opinion, and assuming further that they were not true, they are protected by a qualified…