Ritchie v. Widdemer
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Monmouth Common Pleas. The action was in tort, and the declaration contained three counts. It stated, by way of inducement, inter alia, that the plaintiff was “ a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, duly ordained and in good and regular standing therein,” and that he was acquiring a livelihood in his profession at Asbury Park, in Monmouth county.
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On error to the Monmouth Common Pleas. The action was in tort, and the declaration contained three counts. It stated, by way of inducement, inter alia, that the plaintiff was “ a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, duly ordained and in good and regular standing therein,” and that he was acquiring a livelihood in his profession at Asbury Park, in Monmouth county. It then charged in the first count that the defendant, for the purpose of causing it to be believed that plaintiff had conducted himself improperly and immorally and without integrity in his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, J.
The first assignment of error is based upon-
an exception taken to the refusal of the trial court to nonsuit the plaintiff below. The request to nonsuit was put upon, two grounds—one, applicable to the first two counts; the other, applicable to the third count only.
The first two counts, as will be seen from the statement-prefixed to this opinion, charged the defendant below with-speaking certain words of plaintiff below in respect of his profession as a minister of the Presbyterian church, and attributed to those words a meaning injurious to…
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