Legal Opinion
Belanger v. Cross
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 21, 1985No. 82-314-AppealPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
This is an appeal by the city of Central Falls from a Superior Court judgment awarding the plaintiff, Thomas Belanger (Belanger), $50,000 in damages for injuries sustained while he was being arrested by officers of the Central Falls police department in the early morning of September 23, 1976. After a jury verdict was returned in favor of Belanger, the Superior Court entered judgment thereon and denied the defendant’s new-trial and directed-verdict motions.
The record indicates that Belanger, several hours prior to his apprehension by the officers, had decided to…
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