Watson v. Mix

Order insofar as appealed from unanimously reversed, with costs, defendants’ motion for a protective order denied and plaintiff’s motion for disclosure granted. Memorandum: Plaintiff appeals from that part of a Special Term order which denied his motion for disclosure of the Police Department personnel file of defendant Mix and which granted defendants’ motion for a protective order with respect thereto. Plaintiff in his action for damages, resulting from assaults and false arrest by defendant police officer Mix, alleges in his complaint that Mix had committed previous assaults of which…