Stevens v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action for malicious prosecution on a charge of larceny by P. Clayton Stevens against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Plaintiff had judgment, from which, and an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
Plaintiff had been in defendant’s employ as a solicitor of insurance and collecting agent for a period of about two years immediately preceding May 10, 1889. On that day he resigned from the employment, and on the 21st day of the same month he was apprehended on a criminal charge preferred against him by defendant. The charge was larceny, and involved the alleged felonious misappropriation of $1.40 which had been paid him for defendant by one of its policyholders. Upon this charge plaintiff was indicted by the grand jury, and subsequently tried and acquitted. Thereafter he brought this action…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Willard v. HolmesNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hodge v. SkinnerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1938