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CHAPMAN v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS PUB. CO., INC., 256 App. Div. 1073 (1939)

WENTWORTH F. CHAPMAN, Appellant, v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS Publ’g CO.,INC., WILLIAM F. HOFMANN, SAMUEL L. NEWHOUSE & MATTHEW NAPEAR,Respondents., 256 A.D. 1073 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department. 1939)

Type: Opinion
Court: Nylaw New York
Jurisdiction: Nylaw
Date: 1939-04-03
Topic: general

CHAPMAN v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS PUB. CO., INC., 256 App. Div. 1073 (1939) WENTWORTH F. CHAPMAN, Appellant, v.

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed CHAPMAN v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS PUB. CO., INC., 256 App. Div. 1073 (1939). The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

CHAPMAN v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS PUB. CO., INC.,256 App. Div. 1073(1939)

WENTWORTH F. CHAPMAN, Appellant, v. LONG ISLAND DAILY PRESS PUBLISHING CO.,

INC., WILLIAM F. HOFMANN, SAMUEL L. NEWHOUSE and MATTHEW NAPEAR,

Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

April 3, 1939.

Action for libel. Judgment for the defendants unanimously affirmed, with costs. In view of the jury's verdict in favor of the defendants other than Hofmann, the dismissal as to the latter presents no practical question. (Featherstonv.N. C.Turnpike, 71 Hun, 109, 111;Wolfv.Kenyon,242 App. Div. 116;Good Health Dairy Products Corp.v.Emery,275 N.Y. 14; Freeman on Judgments [5th ed.], § 469, pp. 1031, 1032.)

Present — Lazansky, P.J., Hagarty, Carswell, Johnston and Close, JJ.