Order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements.
We agree with Special Term that the plaintiff failed to establish that the defendant was motivated by actual malice in publication of the allegedly libelous statements, sufficient to defeat defendant's qualified privilege. Hence, dismissal of the complaint was proper (see Stukuls v State of New York,
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