Freedman v. New York Society for Suppression of Vice

This is an action for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment wherein the plaintiff has recovered judgment on a verdict of $500.

One Thomas P. McLoughlin, a police officer, was named as a defendant together with the appellants New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and John S. Sumner, but during the trial, at the close of the plaintiff’s case, the action was discontinued as against him. There is little if any dispute as to the facts leading up to the arrest which occurred on November 10, 1932.

Plaintiff, together with a partner, was engaged in the business of selling books on the…