Tonkonogy v. Jaffin

This is a suit charging the defendants with slander and libel. The defendants move to dismiss the complaint alleging several causes of action contending that the alleged uttered language was privileged.

There was a suit pending in this court by plaintiff Brill against one Jacobson for assault. Her lawyer in that action is the coplaintiff here. In this complaint it is alleged that on his application in court to restore her assault action to the Preferred Calendar, the opposing attorney Kanner engaged as trial counsel by the remaining defendants in this action, orally declaimed that plaintiff…