Knickerbocker v. Press Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ava Belle Knickerbocker, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 25tli day of May, 1910, and also from a judgment in favor of the defendant entered in said clerk’s office on the same day pursuant to said order.
1Opinion of the Court
Carr, J.:
This is an appeal from an order directing judgment for the defendant on the pleadings and from the judgment entered thereon. *139The action was brought by a young lady of the age of eighteen years, through a guardian ad litem, to recover damages for an alleged libel published by the defendant in the city of New York in its newspaper The World, on the 4th day of April, 1909. The alleged libel consisted of the publication of a number of photographs of babies under a printed heading as follows: “World’s Story Promptly Finds Good Homes with Loving Foster Parents for These Little Children.”…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Fleischmann v. . BennettNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- De Sando v. New York Herald Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- Fagan v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908