Berger v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtClose, J.
This action was brought against the city of New York to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff's intestate, caused, it is alleged, by the negligence of a police officer of such *403city while operating a commandeered car in the pursuit of suspicious characters who were fleeing from the officer. The facts may be briefly stated. Defendant Joseph Patrick Kent, a police officer of the city of New York, was patrolling bis beat in the borough of Brooklyn about seven o’clock on the morning of August 23, 1931, when he noticed some suspicious characters loitering in the doorway of a drug store. As…
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