Legal Opinion
Vernes v. Phillips
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 26, 1935PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrouch, J.
The action is for false imprisonment. The defendant is a practicing lawyer. At the close of the plaintiff’s case a motion to dismiss the complaint was granted for insufficiency of proof. The trial judge held that although the defendant had requested the police officers to arrest the plaintiff, “ he was speaking all the time as a mouthpiece for the woman [his client] who stood there,” and, therefore, incurred no liability. The judgment was unanimously affirmed.
The facts are, briefly, as follows: The plaintiff, together with his wife and daughter, were among the directors of a small…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Fischer v. . LangbeinNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Burns v. . ErbenNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Ford v. . WilliamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Brown v. ChadseyNew York Supreme Court · 1863
- Ford & Rockwood v. WilliamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1856
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3Cited by42 opinions
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