Gershon & Green v. Mendel

In a suit by Gershon & Green, a partnership, to recover for an alleged slander spoken by the defendant, Herman Mendel, in the State of New Jersey, the petition made the following case: Gershon & Green were a partnership carrying on a general mercantile business in various cities in this State. Sam Gershon was the senior member, and in. the channels of trade in which the firm operated it was descriptively referred to and identified by the name “Gershon” or “Sam Gershon.” The defendant, in a city in New Jersey on a day named, while the plaintiffs were so in business, falsely uttered to, and in…