Cortright v. Anderson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Sears, J.:
The defendant, by motion, has challenged the sufficiency of the complaint. As upon a demurrer, the facts of the complaint must be assumed to be true, and we are not concerned with possible defenses or with difficulties of proof. The action is for libel arising out of a statement published in various ways during a political campaign when the plaintiff was a candidate for the office of Assemblyman on the Prohibition, Socialist and Farmer-Labor tickets.
The general principles applicable to such a situation are well settled. To comment upon the acts or conduct of a public man is the…
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