Roland v. Slesinger

Motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The first and third causes of action are in slander. They purport to set out the words spoken by putting them in quotation marks but qualify the alleged quotations by saying the words are “ substantially as follows ”. A complaint in slander must set out the exact words (Al Raschid v. News Syndicate Co., 265 N. Y. 1). An approximation is not sufficient (Cooke v. Dodge, 168 Misc. 561).

The second cause of action is difficult to classify. It alleges that at unusual hours of the day and night…