Customer Loses His Action: Disclosures Which May be Made Judgment was entered for the i National Provincial and Union Bank by Mr. Justice Avery in the King's Bench Division recently in the action for slander and breach of contract brought by Mr. Edwin Frederick Fournier, a commercial traveller and salesman, of Camden-square, London.
Mr. Tournier's case was that in July last Mr. J. C. Fennell, the acting manager of the defendants' Moorgate-street branch, told his employers that his account was overdrawn, and that he thought Mr. Fournier was betting heavily, M. Fournier was then on three months' trial with his firm, and at the end of that period they refused to renew the engagement. He had never had a transaction with bookmakers.
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