Fodor v. Fuchs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is a motion to strike out a plea of justification in a libel suit.

The libel complained of in the declaration is that the defendant published the statement that the plaintiff, who is a hanker in New Brunswick, in this state, was an escaped emigration agent (which the declaration alleges means that lie was a fugitive from justice and an exile from his native land, to wit, Hungary) ; that he was a scoundrel and associated with other scoundrels; that he was a wily and spurious banker; that he had raised the rent of houses which he owned,…