Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly concluded that the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a cause of action alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress. The words attributed to the defendants were not "`so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community'" (Murphy v American Home Prods...
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