Legal Opinion
Dean v. . Kochendorfer
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 19, 1924PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
The action is for malicious prosecution and malicious abuse of process. On the trial plaintiff was nonsuited. Judgment was affirmed by a divided court. Plaintiff is a lawyer and defendant is a city magistrate. The controversy arose over the conduct of plaintiff at the Town Hall in Jamaica on April 25, 1921, where the Magistrate’s Court is held. While plaintiff was in the hallway, awaiting the arrival of a witness in a case set for trial on that day, he was ejected from the building by O’Leary, a police officer, who charged him with “ loitering,” against his protest that he was there in the…
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