Grew v. Mountain Home Telephone Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph C. Grew, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of St. Lawrence on the 2d day of March, 1920, upon the dismissal of the complain b by direction of the court at the close of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
In the month of January, 1919, the defendant procured the arrest of the plaintiff upon the charge of violating section 1423 of the Penal Law of this State. The defendant is a domestic corporation, a telephone company, and the violation of the law complained of consisted in the alleged willfully and maliciously displacing, removing and destroying its telephone line, the wires thereon and the poles and appurtenances thereto. The acts complained of were in the information laid for the warrant in the language of the section above referred to, and said section is also referred to in the…
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