Lauffer v. Downes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Downes, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of December, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury for $300, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of January, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
The appeal is from plaintiff’s judgment in an action for damages for false imprisonment. The defendant is an officer of the police force of the city of New York. He arrested the plaintiff without a judicial warrant. She was detained until her arraignment before a city magistrate on the day following her arrest. The officer says he arrested her because she solicited him on a public street at ten-thirty o’clock in the evening and offered to prostitute herself for money. He charged her with a violation of section 1458 óf chapter 410 of the.Laws of 1882 (Consolidation Act),…
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