Saunders v. Post-Standard Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Post-Standard Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 16th day of April, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of April, 1904, denying the defendaht’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
On the 12th day of December, 1900, a herd of cattle owned by the plaintiff was run into by a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad at Dunlap’s Crossing in Onondaga county *86and one was killed and two injured. The appellant was the publisher of the Post-Standard newspaper, and its issue of the morning following the accident contained the alleged account of the transaction which gave rise to this action for libel.
There were two specific offenses charged against the plaintiff. The first and perhaps the gravest was that Saunders had hitched a pair of horses to these two…
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- Crane v. . BennettNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
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- Lanpher v. . ClarkNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
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