Jerome v. New York Evening Journal Pub. Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William Travers Jerome, from an order - of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of December, 1907, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a struck jury to try the issues herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff is the district attorney of the county of New York and the action is brought to recover for alleged libels concerning his official conduct published by the defendant in the Evening Journal. The articles published by the defendant charged the plaintiff, among other things, with having knowingly neglected his duty with respect to the prosecution of corporations and wealthy individuals who were guilty of violations of penal statutes of the State, and that he was influenced to refrain from prosecuting them by the fact that they had made large contributions to a campaign…
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