Hewitt v. Wasek
New York Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
Robert 0. Brink, J.
This is a motion to dismiss the complaint in the above-entitled action on the grounds that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The defendant has also moved to strike from the complaint certain allegations claimed to be irrelevant, frivolous, redundant, unnecessary and scandalous.
Plaintiff’s complaint sets forth a cause of action for slander based on the following words alleged to have been uttered by the defendant ‘1 that the plaintiff, Ina Hewitt, was keeping company with and having an affair with a married man ’ ’. The complaint further…
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