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Eliot G. Farrington, Respondent, v. Star Company, Appellant.
    
      Libel — publication of plaintiff’s photograph in connection with article charging person of same surname with crime.
    
    
      Farrington v. Star Co., 217 App. Div. 733, affirmed.
    (Argued January 19, 1927;
    decided February 23, 1927.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 24, 1926, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict in an action for libel. It was shown that defendant had twice published in the New York American the plaintiff’s photograph in connection with a story in which one Edward Joseph Farrington was charged with seduction under promise of marriage and that the articles were false as to this plaintiff.
    
      William A. De Ford for appellant.
    
      Herbert C. Smyth, Roderic Willman and Ralph W. Thomas for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman and Kellogg, JJ.