GREENFIELD v. NAT'L EQUIP. RENTAL, LTD.


28 A.D.2d 668 (1967)

Harvey Greenfield, Respondent, v. National Equipment Rental, Ltd., et al., Appellants

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

June 15, 1967


Order entered February 16, 1967, denying defendant-appellant's motion to dismiss the seventh cause of action of the plaintiff's complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, and said cause of action of the complaint is dismissed, with $50 costs and disbursements to appellants.

The alleged defamatory words, properly regarded, were but a colloquialism, not altogether uncommon. Since the language was uttered on a single occasion and referred to an isolated instance, the...

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