Pronovich v. Plains Township

Valentine, P. J.,

Plaintiffs sued in trespass to recover damages for injuries allegedly inflicted by individual defendants upon minor plaintiff. The complaint alleges that the two defendants, police officers of Plains Township, assaulted minor plaintiff. An effort is made to hold the township responsible for the acts of the officers, upon the contention, as asserted in the complaint, “that defendant, Plains Township, *478knew or should have known that defendants, Joseph Sherin and Andrew Beganski, had, in the past, administered beatings to other prisoners”.

The negligence charged against the…