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- Title: Comerford v. Meier Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 01, 1939
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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RONAN, Justice. The declaration in this action of tort alleges that the plaintiff is an officer and employee of a certain corporation, referred to as a bank; that in 1934 he opposed the employment by the bank of one Sontag; and that certain of the defendants, for the purpose of securing such employment for Sontag and for the purpose of ousting the plaintiff from his employment with the bank, combined, confederated and agreed among themselves and later with the remaining defendants upon a plan which included the following activities: (a) They have induced the stockholders of the bank, some of whom are the other defendants in this action, to make the bank a so-called German Bank; that is, to exclude from employment or from holding of stock only those who are of German origin or descent, which the plaintiff is not, and meetings and gatherings have been held which were participated in by the defendants for the purpose of achieving this end; (b) Three named defendants have disseminated and published in the city where the bank was located and amongst the other defendants and others, statements that the plaintiff was a crook, that he had gotten away with money of the Bank and that he would be put in jail; (c) In order to destroy the value of the plaintiffs shares of stock of the bank the defendants have, since 1935, induced the supervisor of loan agencies of the Commonwealth to refuse to restore the banks license to conduct the business of making small loans and have caused the supervisor to state that he will not restore such license unless the plaintiffs employment is terminated and, as a consequence, the value of the plaintiffs services to the bank has been lessened; (d) The defendants, by threats of jail and intimidation and by the circulation of stories and statements that the plaintiff had gotten away with money of the bank * * * planned to humiliate and intimidate the plaintiff so that he would resign his position and surrender his stock; and (e) The defendants, without the approval of the directors, have brought a bill in equity to secure the appointment of a receiver for the bank; such action was brought not in good faith but in order to oust the plaintiff and to destroy the value of his stock. There is an allegation that as a result of these acts the plaintiff has suffered substantial damage, severe mental anguish and the expenditure of large sums in defence of himself and his rights in the Bank. The plaintiff appealed from an order sustaining the defendants demurrer and also from an order allowing a motion to dismiss which alleged that the action was for slander or libel and for malicious prosecution and could not be brought by trustee process.