Case ID: f_146/html/0623-01.html
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Author: {"author": "HAZED, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT CO. v. S. S. McCLURE CO.
    (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    June 13, 1906.)
    Libel — Action BY CORPORATION-PTJiADlNO.
    A corporation can maintain an action to recover for pecuniary loss as the result of a libelous publication precisely as an individual could in a like situation, and where the publication is libelous per se, and calculated to injuriously affect plaintiff’s business, special damages need not be alleged.
    [Ed. Note. — Tor cases in point, seo vol. 32, Cent. Dig. Libel and Slander, § 171.]
    On Demurrer to Complaint.
    Huntington, Rhinelander & Seymour, for plaintiff.
    Roe & McCombs and Gilbert E. Roe, for defendant.
   HAZED, District Judge.

The authorities indicate that the plaintiff has a right to maintain this action without allegation of special damages. The context of the published article, read in its entirety, charges the commission of a crime and imputes wrongdoing in its trade, and is calculated to injuriously affect the commercial relations of the plaintiff. Assuming the truth of the latter statement, the cases seem to hold that a corporation may recover for pecuniary loss as a result of a libelous publication precisely as an individual could in a like situation.

The demurrer is overruled, with costs. Defendant may answer within twenty days.