Case Name: NAT PETERSON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. CHARLOTTE CROSSLEY, TRADING AS THE COURT HOUSE SERVICE STATION, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1937-01-22
Citations: 117 N.J.L. 525
Docket Number: 
Parties: NAT PETERSON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. CHARLOTTE CROSSLEY, TRADING AS THE COURT HOUSE SERVICE STATION, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 525–525

Head Matter:
NAT PETERSON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. CHARLOTTE CROSSLEY, TRADING AS THE COURT HOUSE SERVICE STATION, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
Submitted October 30, 1936
Decided January 22, 1937.
For the plaintiff-appellant, Samuel Tartalsky and Jacob R. Friedman.
For the defendant-respondent, Frank Benjamin.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment under review should be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the per curiam opinion filed in the Supreme Court; with this further observation: The defendant's employe, against whom the slander and false arrest are alleged, was not provoked thereunto by any suggestion of a contemporaneous theft. All that appears upon the record as a reason which impelled the employe to utter the offensive words and to cause the detention was that he observed within the plaintiff's vehicle a bottle of oil of a brand carried in stock by the defendant as well as by the defendant's competitors. The employe, having so observed, concluded that the article had, at some time, been stolen from the defendant; and thereupon he entered upon a course of conduct which, under the circumstances, was quite outside the scope of his authority.
For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Trenchard, Parker, Case, Perskie, Hetfield, Dear, Wells, WolfsKeil, Rafferty, Cole, JJ. 12.
For reversal — None.