Schildhaus v. City of New York

In this action the defendant City of New York appeals from a judgment entered against it in the amount of $12,218.50 upon a jury verdict in plaintiff’s favor on his first cause of action. The plaintiff also appealed. His appeal was from the jury verdict in defendant’s favor on the second cause of action.* That appeal, however, had been dismissed by order of this court dated May 7,1965.

The first cause of action is for false imprisonment and arises out of a series of seven separate incarcerations of the plaintiff which stemmed from an allegedly defective information charging him with…