Khuri v. M. W. Kellogg Co.

Order entered June 1, 1967, and judgment entered August 28, 1969, unanimously modified on the law to the extent of granting defendant’s motion for judgment in its favor dismissing the second cause of action notwithstanding the verdict and otherwise affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements to defendant-respondent-appellant. This is an action for slander based on defendant’s reply to a request by a professor at New York University, to give defendant’s evaluation of plaintiff, a former employee in defendant’s pilot plant research program. Defendant’s director of personnel did so orally and, at…