Craven v. Bloomingdale
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lyman G. Bloomingdale, doing business under the firm name of Bloomingdale Brothers, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the ■office of the clerk of the county of New York on‘the 15th day of March, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,250, and also from an •order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of March, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
On the trial of an action brought to recover damages for false ■imprisonment the plaintiff had a verdict, and from the judgment •entered thereon and from an order denying a motion for a new trial the defendant appeals.
The plaintiff was arrested by a policeman at the instigation of a •driver in the employ of the defendant, was taken before a police magistrate who seems to have inquired into the cause of the arrest and then discharged the plaintiff. The facts constituting the cause of action and proven are, in brief, the following: The defendant, the proprietor of a large…
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