NOT SLANDER.
■ IF BANK TELLS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT London, June 3. The High Court jury held that the words appealing in the pass books of bank customers to the ©feet that officers of the Bank were bound to secrecy as regards transactions of its customers, did not apply_ to the ordinary course of business. A branch manager had communicated to the manag'er of an engineering firm, stating that one of his salesmen had passed a cheque on a slightly overdrawn account to a bookmaker. The jury dismissed the salesman’s 'slander claim, holding that the bank’s action did not constitute slander. The Judge pointed out that a banker could disclose the state of a person’s account if it. was reasonable or justifiable without committing- a'- breach of confidence.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 5 June 1923, Page 6
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127NOT SLANDER. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 5 June 1923, Page 6
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