Molony v. Dows
New York Court of Common Pleas
Motion to dismiss complaint. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff at the hands of the defendant in San Francisco, California, during the time that the government of that city was administered by what is known as the Vigilance Committee.
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Motion to dismiss complaint. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff at the hands of the defendant in San Francisco, California, during the time that the government of that city was administered by what is known as the Vigilance Committee. The plaintiff’s complaint stated in substance that defendant was the treasurer of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, and, in conjunction with one William Coleman and forty others, in May, 1856, at the city of San Francisco, of which place plaintiff had always been a good and peaceable…
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, J.
The short period that has elapsed between the close of the argument and the time for the decision of this motion, has barely sufficed to enable me to do more than examine the large number of authorities cited in the course of it; and in deciding the motion, I am enabled only to express my views in a very general way. I think the point is well taken that an action cannot be maintained in this court, or in any court of this State, to recover a pecuniary satisfaction in damages for a wilful injury to the person, inflicted in another State, where, at the time of the act, both the wrongdoer and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gardner v. ThomasNew York Supreme Court · 1817
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