Gise v. Brooklyn Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children

The infant plaintiff asserts in her complaint two causes of action against the defendant for false imprisonment. The gravamen of the first cause of action is that the defendant, wrongfully and without any commitment by the court, detained the plaintiff, then a child fourteen years of age, from Saturday, September 14, 1929, until the opening of the Children’s Court on September 16, 1929. The gravamen of the second cause of action is that the defendant wrongfully detained the plaintiff, under an order of the Children’s Court committing the plaintiff as a material witness, from September 16,…