DANIEL v. DOW JONES & CO.


137 Misc.2d 94 (1987)

Elridge Daniel, Plaintiff, v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (News Retrieval Service), Defendant.

Civil Court of the City of New York, Special Term, New York County.

October 13, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Robert D. Sack and Richard J. Tofel of counsel), for defendant. Thomas J. Hanrahan for plaintiff.


LEWIS R. FRIEDMAN, J.

With the inexorable march of time has come an age of technology of previously unimagined dimensions. Methods for news delivery have advanced apace with general scientific achievements. While town criers had for centuries informed the local citizenry, general circulation newspapers eventually made criers superfluous. Early in this century, news, transmitted by radio and telephone, became...

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