Newark Trust Company v. Bruwer

(for the majority of the Court): This is an action of slander brought by Mrs. Georgia Bruwer, plaintiff below, against Newark Trust Company, defendant below. The sole question before us is whether there was sufficient evidence of malice to warrant the trial judge in submitting the case to the jury.

We must, of course, view the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff. If it is so viewed, plaintiff made the following case.

Toward the end of the year 1955 there was presented to Newark Trust Company several checks on depositors’ accounts the signatures of which were forged. One of these…