Grinnell v. Weston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edward Weston, 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 27th day of January, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of December, '1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:. The plaintiff,- a physician and surgeon, - engaged in the practice of his profession in the State of Vermont, on the 23d day of March, 1901, when in the Grand Central Depot in the city of New York about to take a train, was arrested by á police officer of the city of New York at the instigation of the defendant, taken to police headquarters and after a detention there taken before a police magistrate and. discharged. He brought this ■ action to recover damages for a false imprisonment based' ¡upon this arrest and detention.
Hpon the trial it was not disputed but that the…
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