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MAY v. PEEKSKILL MILITARY ACAD.

1 A.D.2d 960 (1956)

Lester E. May, Appellant v. Peekskill Military Academy et al., Respondents Peter P. George, Appellant, v. Peekskill Military Academy et al., Respondents Robert Ryan, Appellant, v. Peekskill Military Academy et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 9, 1956

Orders, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, without costs.

It is alleged that respondents falsely spoke of appellants that their plot (which resulted in their dismissal from employment in the respondent school) was "Communist-inspired" and "Communist-led". Assuming that the words would have been libelous (Menchor v. Chesley, 297 N.Y. 94), they are nevertheless not slanderous per se (Gurtler v. Union Parts Mfg. Co., 285 App. Div. 643, affd.

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