Daniels v. City of Syracuse

A jury has returned a verdict of $1,500 for plaintiff as the result of injuries claimed to have been sustained as the result of an assault made upon plaintiff while leading him through one of the corridors at police headquarters in the city of Syracuse, New York, on January 25, 1950. Plaintiff claimed that the assault was unprovoked, resulting from blows struck *416by one of the officers with a night stick and with his fist, resulting in a fracture of plaintiff’s right cheek bone and other injuries. The defense was not based upon any alleged provocation by way of the plaintiff resisting the…