DE MARCO-STONE FUNERAL HOME, INC. v. WRGB BROAD., INC.


203 A.D.2d 780 (1994)

610 N.Y.S.2d 666

De Marco-Stone Funeral Home, Inc., Appellant, v. WRGB Broadcasting, Inc., et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

April 21, 1994


Mercure, J.

This action arises out of a story broadcast by defendants in December 1990 detailing a burial supervised by plaintiff during which the casket was dropped and cracked open. The persons who lowered the casket into the grave and dropped it were employed by the Catholic Diocese of Albany and not plaintiff. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the story aired by defendants was defamatory because it stated that plaintiff "bungled" the...

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