Dumas v. Erie Railroad

In an action for false imprisonment, judgment and order reversed on the law and the facts and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order herein the plaintiff stipulate that the verdict be further reduced to $5,000, in which event the judgment as so modified and the order as modified accordingly are unanimously affirmed, without costs. The two causes of action pleaded were essentially but one cause of action. (Beardsley v. Soper, 184 App. Div. 399; Sheldon v. Lake, 40 How. Pr. 489.) The evidence furnished an ample basis for a finding by…