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William S. Evans, Respondent, v. Star Company, Appellant.
    (Argued October 5, 1926;
    decided October 22, 1926.)
    
      Libel — charge that Member of Assembly was bribed to absent himself from meeting of committee.
    
    
      Evans v. Star Co., 216 App. Div. 736, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 31, 1926, modifying and affirming as modified a verdict in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action for libel. The complaint alleged that defendant published in its newspapers articles falsely charging defendant, a Member of Assembly, of having been bribed to absent himself from a meeting of the judiciary committee of which he was a member.
    
      Judgment affirmed, with costs;
    
      Clarence J. Shearn and William A. De Ford for appellant.
    
      Martin Conboy, Henry T. Hall and Don B. Almy for respondent.
   no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.