Figueroa v. City of New York

In an action to recover damages for unlawful arrest, assault, false imprisonment and negligence, plaintiff appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feiden, J.), entered June 19, 1980, as dismissed the first, second, third and fourth causes of action of his complaint, upon a directed verdict, after a jury trial limited to the issue of liability only. Judgment modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by deleting the provision dismissing the first, third and fourth causes of action. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as…