Coleman v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by the defendants, James N. Brown and’ others, 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 19th day of November, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,407.67, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of November, 1907, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The complaint sets forth in separate counts two causes Of action, one for false arrest and imprisonment, and the other for malicious prosecution. ■ Both causes of action are based on an order of arrest procured by the defendants in an action against the plaintiff herein brought in the Supreme Court of this State to recover the principal, interest and protest fees aggregating the sum of $2,098.93, as payees of a check drawn by him to their order on the People’s Bank of Darlington, S. C. The order of arrest was granted by a justice of the *45Supreme Court, but on an appeal from an…
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- Landt v. HiltsNew York Supreme Court · 1855
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- Simpson v. HornbeckNew York Supreme Court · 1870
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