Shea v. Berry
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Achon to recover damages for alleged malicious arrest and prosecution, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Webb, J.; verdict and judgment for $750 against the defendant Berry, which the trial court set aside as against the evidence and as excessive, from which action the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRokaback, J.
The record discloses that on July 7th, 1918, the defendant Berry was a policeman connected with the police department of the city of Waterbury. Berry and another witness‘each testified that about two o’clock in the morning of the 7th of July, they discovered the plaintiff attempting to make an entrance into a saloon located upon East Main Street in the city of Waterbury owned by one Knightly. These witnesses stated that Shea had one hand on a door-knob while he was attempting to open the door of the saloon with a key attached to a string of keys, which he afterward admitted that he owned.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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