Buckley v. Trenton Saving Fund Society
Supreme Court of New Jersey
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by POLLOCK, J.
The fundamental question in this case is whether a customer may recover against a drawee bank for mental anguish and punitive damages caused by the bank’s wrongful dishonor of the customer’s check drawn payable to a third party. The Law Division dismissed the claim of plaintiff, Joseph E. Buckley, Jr., for punitive damages, but submitted his claim for mental anguish to the jury, which returned a verdict for $25,000 in favor of Buckley and against Trenton Saving Fund Society (the bank). The Appellate Division affirmed the dismissal of the…
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