Case ID: ny-sup-ct_10/html/0606-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES E. WATTS, Respondent, v. WILLIAM B. HILTON, Appellant. JOSEPH M. WOODS, Respondent, v. WILLIAM B. HILTON, Appellant.
    
      Complaint—when, facts showing ccmse of action, for libel and malicious prosecution may be joined in.
    
    Where the complaint set forth a series of acts on the part of the defendant, all aimed at,, and seeming and charged to be for effecting, one object, the different acts being the publication of a libel against the plaintiff, and maliciously causing his arrest: held, that a demurrer interposed to the complaint, on the ground that there was an improper joinder of causes of action, and that the complaint did not stale facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, was properly overruled.
    Appeal from orders, made at the Special Term, overruling demurrers to the complaints in the above entitled actions.
    
      George W. Parsons, for the appellant.
    
      Trea&well ds Cleveland, for the respondents.
   Opinion by Donohue, J.

Orders affirmed, with costs.