Lopez v. William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered May 2, 1974, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts and vacated, and the cause remanded for trial anew on both issues, with $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal to abide the event. Defendant-appellant employed one Julio Lopez as a uniformed guard and, after six months of employment, procured a pistol permit for him. Letters sent to employers whose names had been furnished by Lopez turned up no denigratory information, unless the unexplained laconic observation of one former employer that it would not rehire him be deemed such. We…