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Abigail H. Bishop, Respondent, v. The New York Times Company, Appellant.
    
      Libel — evidence ■—■ admissibility of testimony showing shunning and avoidance of plaintiff by her child after reading article.
    
    
      Bishop v. New York Times Co., 214 App. Div. 723, affirmed.
    (Argued December 16, 1925;
    decided January 12, 1926.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 29, 1925, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was for libel. (See 233 N. Y. 446.) The question on this appeal was whether evidence tending to show that the reading of the article in question by a child of the plaintiff had resulted in the child’s shunning and avoiding the plaintiff was admissible as proof of damage.
    
      Emil Goldmark, Alfred A. Cook and John M. Greenfield for appellant.
    
      Stanley C. Fowler and Ralph 0. L. Fay for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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