Pettalino v. State

Appeal by the State from a judgment of the Court of Claims which awarded damages for malicious prosecution instituted by an investigator in the Department of State by information charging claimant with violating article 28 of the General Business Law, more specifically by (1) “practicing barbering ” without a license and (2) “running an unlicensed shop in his home ”, of which charges claimant was later acquitted after trial in a Police Court. (Opinion in Court of Claims, 43 Misc 2d 165.) Following an anonymous telephone complaint, the investigator was directed to go to claimant’s apartment…