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MacCormac v. Tobey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 1, 1905
109 App. Div. 581 (N.Y. App. Div. 1905)

Opinion

December, 1905.

W.E. Hoysradt, for the appellant.

B.L. Kraus, for the respondent.


This action was brought against the defendant as owner and publisher of a newspaper called the Sunday Courier, published in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, N.Y., to recover damages for a libel. The complaint alleges that the newspaper was published in Poughkeepsie and that the said paper is of general circulation in that city and the vicinity. There is no allegation that there was a publication of the libel outside of the county of Dutchess.

We held in Rogers v. Butler ( 71 App. Div. 613) and in Wool-worth v. Klock (92 id. 142) that an action for libel should be tried in the county in which the newspaper is published and circulated. Whatever damages the plaintiff sustained in consequence of such publication arose from the publication in the county in which the newspaper was circulated. There is no justification alleged, and the only questions to be determined are whether or not the article published is a libel and, if it is, the amount of the plaintiff's damage. The question as to whether the article published is a libel is a question of law, and the plaintiff's damage, if any, can be more conveniently ascertained in Dutchess county, where the paper is circulated.

The order appealed from should, therefore, be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted.

O'BRIEN, P.J., McLAUGHLIN, LAUGHLIN and HOUGHTON, JJ., concurred.

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted.


Summaries of

MacCormac v. Tobey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 1, 1905
109 App. Div. 581 (N.Y. App. Div. 1905)
Case details for

MacCormac v. Tobey

Case Details

Full title:PAUL MacCORMAC, Respondent, v . ARTHUR G. TOBEY, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Dec 1, 1905

Citations

109 App. Div. 581 (N.Y. App. Div. 1905)
96 N.Y.S. 302

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