GALVIN v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD


341 Mass. 293 (1960)

168 N.E.2d 262

JEREMIAH E. GALVIN vs. THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Gaffney, (Patrick F. Murphy with him,) for the plaintiff.

Noel W. Deering, for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

This action of tort, originally brought against the corporate defendant and two of its employees, Curley and Flynn, was submitted to the jury only against the corporate defendant, hereinafter called the defendant.1 The case having been submitted on three counts (slander, false imprisonment, and breach of contract), the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff on the slander count, and

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