Ciocca v. Hacker

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] This is an appeal from an order entered in the Bergen County Court on the first day of February, 1949, which provided "that the counterclaim filed in the above entitled action by Hacker Hacker be and is hereby dismissed."

In February, 1947, the plaintiff, Joseph Ciocca, a member of the Board of Education of the Borough of Fort Lee, filed a complaint for libel against the defendant Ralph E. Hacker, a member of Hacker Hacker, architects. In September, 1947, a…