Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
The false accusation that a police officer was drunk or intoxicated while on duty is slanderous per se and requires no allegation or proof of special damages (see Ann. 53 ALR2d 8, 121; 34 NY Jur, Libel and Slander, §§ 39, 45). The single-instance rule is inapplicable. That a police officer would permit himself to be drunk while on duty shows such a lack of character as would...
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