Kolzem v. Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action by Michael Kolzem against the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad Company for false imprisonment. From a judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
Plaintiff, a plumber acting under the authority of a permit issued to him by the commissioner of public works, proceeded to excavate the street and roadbed in front of the premises 393 Seventh avenue, in the *701city of New York, for the purpose of repairing the sewer connections, when he was apprehended by a police officer on- a charge of having willfully obstructed, hindered, and delayed the passage of defendant’s cars lawfully running upon its street railway, which by section 426, c. 676, Laws 1881, (Pen. Code,) Laws 1879, c. 474, is made a misdemeanor. He was taken before a police justice,…
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