Rembt v. Roehr Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Christopher Rembt, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of May, 1901, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff and granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This is an .action for damages, alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the publication of a libel in the newspaper of the defendant. The trial took place before a justice of the Supreme Court and a jury on the 13th day of May, 1901, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,000. The learned court granted *460defendant’s motion for a new trial, under the provisions of section 999 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and from the order entered appeal comes to this court.
It does not appear upon which one of the various grounds urged by the defendant the order was…
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