The action is laid in slander. The statement alleged to have been made about plaintiff is "Rose took an extra pay envelope". Referring to this statement is the pleaded innuendo that defendant-appellant "thereby intending to charge plaintiff with having stolen [it]". The rule is very well settled. Innuendo may not do the service in a pleading of enlarging the plain meaning of words. (Stevens v. Whalen, 234 App. Div. 118, 119.) But if the words used reasonably have the...
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