Kastner v. Long Island Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Long Island Railroad Company, from a judgment in each of the above-entitled actions in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 24th day of January, 1902, upon the verdict of á jury in each of said actions for $500, and also from an order in each action entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of February, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made Upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
In these two actions, which were tried together, the plaintiffs have recovered damages to the amount of $500 each against the Long Island Railroad Company for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution effected through the agency of a special officer in the service of the defendant, who caused the arrest .of the plaintiffs upon a charge of having stolen coal from the defendant’s premises. The arrest was made not upon the land of the Long Island Railroad Company, but at a point several blocks distant from the place where . the coal was alleged to have been stolen. In…
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