Legal Opinion
LaPorta v. Leonard
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided March 6, 1916PublishedCited by 11 opinions
On appeal from the Hudson Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Minturn, J.
The plaintiff alleges that during a proceeding in the recorder’s court of the city of Hoboken, the defendant, a lawyer of many years’ standing, remonstrated with him, a co-laborer at the bar, in the following manner:
“Yon are a vermin. Yon are a disgrace to the bar, and are starting out in the wrong way as a young lawyer. This will give you a black eye. You and your client committed perjury. You suborned your client.”
*664This language resulted in a suit at law for slander, in which the plaintiff alleged serious injury to his reputation and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Rice v. CoolidgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Maulsby v. ReifsniderCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1888
- White v. . CarrollNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Barnes v. McCrateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1851
- Mower v. WatsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1839
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Devlin v. GreinerNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1977
- Middlesex Concrete Products & Excavating Corp. v. Carteret Industrial Ass'nNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1961
- Fenning v. SG Holding Corp.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1957
- Wendy's of So. Jersey, Inc. v. Blanchard Manage. Corp.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1979
- Lone v. BrownNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1985
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