JAMES v. POWELL


19 N.Y.2d 249 (1967)

Esther James, Respondent, v. Adam C. Powell, Jr., et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry R. Williams, Lawrence R. Bailey, Thomas V. Sinclair, Jr., William C. Chance, Jr., and Lucille Chance for appellants.

Raymond Rubin for respondent.

Judges VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, BERGAN and KEATING concur with Chief Judge FULD; Judge SCILEPPI dissents, in part, in an opinion; Judge BREITEL taking no part.


Chief Judge FULD.

The parties in this litigation are not strangers to our court. In July, 1964, we affirmed a libel judgment for $46,500 in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (14 N.Y.2d 881; see, also, 18 N.Y.2d 931). And now we are called upon to review an award of damages to the plaintiff against...

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