Court Opinion

ID: 3606536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:51:48.772428+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:05.088620
License: Public Domain

The complaint should not have been dismissed as against these defendants-respondents. Their communications were protected by a qualified privilege but plaintiff's proof made out a primafacie case of malice. (Ashcroft v. Hammond, 197 N.Y. 488.) The question was for the jury.
The judgments should be reversed and a new trial granted with costs to abide the event.
LEHMAN, Ch. J., LOUGHRAN, FINCH, RIPPEY, LEWIS, CONWAY and DESMOND, JJ., concur.
Judgments reversed, etc. *Page 191