Snead v. Bonnoil
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Maurice Bonnoil, 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 2d day of May, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of May, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J.:
The action is for a false imprisonment. The defendant and one Cottrell, both police officers, arrested the plaintiff without a warrant. The circumstances, as detailed by the defendant in his testimony, were probably sufficient to justify the arrest. They showed ground for the suspicion, and possibly reasonable ground for the belief, that the plaintiff had not come honestly by the silverware and jewelry which he then had in a small satchel, and which he had just attempted to pawn. There was, however, a conflict of testimony with regard to the attendant circumstances. The plaintiff…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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