Order and judgment modified, on the law and facts, and, as modified, affirmed, with costs to plaintiff, in accordance with memorandum.
Memorandum:
Plaintiff commenced this slander action after his employment was terminated by defendant bank following a meeting in which defendants Lee and Dovidio, a bank officer and employee respectively, accused him of misappropriating bank property and dealing in illicit drugs. The jury awarded plaintiff $55,000 in
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