Plaintiff, Percival C. Lyons, has been the Sheriff of Franklin County since January 1, 1963, with an office at the county seat in Malone, New York. He commenced this libel action based upon a passage which appeared at pages 162 and 163 in the novel .44 written by codefendants Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap and published by defendant New American Library, Inc. (NAL). According to the complaint, the novel is the "detailed and sometime frustrating search by the New York City...
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