Payne v. Rouss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Charles Broadway Rouss, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 26th day of June, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of June, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This is an action for libel. The plaintiff, a young man twenty-five years of age, entered the employ of the defendant in a wholesale store in the city of New York, and wras afterwards sent to . Pittston, Penn., to take the management of a branch store,.under a contract which permitted the plaintiff to become the owner of the store upon jjaying for the goods in the manner agreed upon. Plaintiff went to Pittston in February, and left that place in June of 1898, to accept a position in New. York. The matter complained * of as libelous is to be found in the following letter :
“W. W.…
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