Johnson v. May
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ivar May, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 18th day of February, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of February, 1919, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, J.:
The complaint contains two causes of action, the first for an alleged false imprisonment of the plaintiff by defendant on August 6, 1918, and the second for malicious prosecution based upon the same transaction. It appears that the defendant is the owner of certain premises in the city of New York, at South Beach, Staten Island, on the shore of the lower bay, his title extending to high-water mark. There is no survey or map printed with the papers. The defendant’s title deed apparently conveyed to him the fee down to high-water mark, with all the rights of his grantor in the land…
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