Goodstein v. Chalfonte Hotel Corp.

Plaintiff, a tenant of the defendant, Chalfonte Hotel, sues the hotel and its bookkeeper, the defendant, Kathleen Nolan, alleging three causes of action in his complaint. The first is framed in slander against both defendants; the second in negligence, solely against the hotel; the third for malicious prosecution solely against Nolan. At the close of plaintiff’s case I dismissed the second cause of action, as no satisfactory proof in fact or law was established to sustain the cause of action framed in negligence. The testimony before me reveals that, on the morning of March 25, 1949,…