Jorgensen v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

The defendant appeals from a judgment awarding the plaintiff, a former employee, substantial damages for wrongful discharge, defamation and false imprisonment. This is the second judgment recovered by *545the plaintiff. The first, which was entered upon jury-verdicts for $80,000 and reduced by the trial court to $60,000, was reversed by the Appellate Division in Jorgensen v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 38 N. J. Super. 317 (1955), and remanded for a new trial. Upon remand the plaintiff recovered the present judgment entered upon jury verdicts for…