Amory v. Vreeland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Herbert H. Yreeland, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 2d day of January, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of February, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The action is to recover damages for a libel contained in an article prepared by the defendant and delivered by him to representatives of the daily papers of Hew York city, and published on the 11th of March, 1903.
The defendant was president of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and prior to the statement issued by him, numerous attacks in the daily press had been made upon the financial standing of that company, its management and the integrity of its official reports.
In the article which defendant prepared and caused to be published it was charged that this plaintiff was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Holmes v. . JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Carpenter v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Butler v. Gazette Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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- Meehan v. SnowDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1980
- Nellis v. MillerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
- Klein v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1939
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