Legal Opinion
Stearns v. New York City Transit Authority
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 19, 1960PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMatthew M. Levy, J.
The plaintiff sues for false arrest and imprisonment and for malicious prosecution, and now moves on the pleadings and affidavits for summary judgment in his *217favor, asking that an order be made striking the answer and setting the cause down for an assessment of damages (Rules Civ. Prac., rule 113). The following facts are submitted by him in the moving papers:
On May 19, 1958 the defendant Starks, while employed by the defendant New York City Transit Authority as a clerk in a change booth, was robbed at gunpoint of his employer’s money. The crime was perpetrated by two men in the Independent…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Bass v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1949
- Davern v. . BreenNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
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