3846 False statements to plaintiff's customers that plaintiff introduced illegal carcinogenic chemicals into public drainage systems were sufficiently likely to result in loss of profits to plaintiff to permit pleading a case of slander per se without allegations of special damage, but can not be the basis of an action for trade libel without actual loss of profitsCitationMANN v QUALITY OLD TIME SERVICE (False Reports) 120 CA4 90 [See: Smith v Maldonado 72 CA4 637, T/AT 7/99; Albertini v Schaefer 97 CA3 822]
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