Beardsley v. Soper
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William A. Soper, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Delaware on the 14th day of November, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $300, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of December, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The complaint alleges, and the evidence would permit a jury to find, that the defendant, a police officer of the village of Walton, struck the plaintiff upon the head with a police club and forcibly took him to the village lockup, where the plaintiff was kept about twenty-four hours, and finally released without the semblance of an arraignment or trial, and that the plaintiff was made sore and sick, and was obliged to remain in bed for a period of one week, and was confined to the house for two weeks. The action is, of course, for false imprisonment, and there is no merit in the…
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