Legal Opinion
Matter of Evans v. Berry
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 23, 1933PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pound, Ch. J.
On February 5, 1927, members of the police force of the city of New York, lawfully engaged in the pursuit of robbers who had held up a drug store on Melrose avenue in the borough of The Bronx, fired a number of pistol shots at the fugitives. The appellant, who was at the time passing along Melrose avenue near the scene of the holdup, was struck by a bullet from the revolver of one of the police officers and so wounded that she is now a partial cripple.
On December 10, 1927, the Municipal Assembly of the City of New York adopted a local law known as New York City Local Law No. 13…
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