Thompson v. Fisk
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Albert J. Fisk and another, from a, judgment of the County Court of Monroe county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 29th day of May, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of May, 1899, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J. :
The action as tried and submitted to the jury was one for false imprisonment.
The defendants were husband and wife. The plaintiff was a domestic in their family. A watch and two chains belonging to the wife were stolen from the house where the defendants lived and the *72plaintiff was employed. Upon the discovery of the theft the husband procured a detective from the police department of the city of Rochester to come to the house and investigate so as to discover if possible the guilty party and recover the stolen property.
It was alleged that the defendants charged the plaintiff…
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