Rumbauskas v. Cantor

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, Justice.

In an earlier time, the great Judge Wilfred Jayne might have written of this case: “In several of its aspects this cause is an unfashionable one to be introduced to a court * * * for determination.” Ta mi v. Pikowitz, 138 N.J.Eq. 410, 410, 48 A.2d 221 (Ch.1946). An innocuous rivalry between two suitors of a woman is ordinarily not the business of the law. In this case, however, what began as mere harassment of a rival suitor escalated into stalkings and threats to kill. Fortunately, the processes of criminal law intervened to save…