Hornell Broadcasting Corp. v. A. C. Nielsen Co.

This is an appeal from Special Term’s denial of defendants’ motions to dismiss the amended complaint or in the alternative to require plaintiff to separately state and number. Plaintiff pleads three causes of action growing out of an alleged libel by the defendants. In the first cause of action plaintiff claims injury to its business, loss of advertising accounts and inability to sell advertising time, all to its damage in the sum of $25,000. The second cause of action repeats and realleges all of the allegations of the first cause of action and demands $10,000 for damage to its reputation in…