Kourtalis v. City of New York

—In an action to recover damages, inter alia, for assault and battery, false arrest, and malicious prosecution, the defendants New York City Transit Authority and Jerald Blanding appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Zelman, J.), entered September 24, 1990, which, upon a jury verdict, awarded the principal sum of $312,187.19 to the plaintiff.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.

On January 6, 1986, the defendant Jerald Blanding, a New York City Transit Authority police officer, stopped the plaintiff…