Danko v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

Order, entered October 16,1967, unanimously reversed, on the law, with $50 costs and disbursements to defendants-appellants, and motion to dismiss third amended complaint granted, with taxable costs. The first and second causes of action, pleaded as causes of action to recover general damages for slander per se, are insufficient as such. The charge that plaintiff “aided and abetted a criminal ” is not slanderous per se. (See 2 Seelman, Law of Libel and Slander [rev. ed.], par. 27, pp. 923, 924; Jordan v. Lewis, 20 A D 2d 773, 774; Riley v. Baddour, 73 N. Y. S. 2d 140.) Although, as this court…