Nunnally v. Mail & Express Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Mail and Express Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4tli day of January, 1906, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The defendant appeals from an interlocutory judgment sustaining a demurrer to the second separate and distinct "defense set up in its answer. The action was brought to recover damages for an alleged libel printed in a newspaper published and circulated by the defendant. The substance of the libel is that the plaintiff committed the crimes of'murder and robbery, the victim of both offenses being a young man by the name of Melles. The article complained of charges that a poison called “ knockout drops ” was administered to Melles with the intention of robbery, and the inti*832mation…
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