Legal Opinion
Peers v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided July 30, 1957No. Claim No. 32680PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRichard S. Heller, J.
This is a claim for malicious prosecution based upon the arrest, imprisonment and trial of claimant Henry M. Peers, Jr., during the summer and fall of 1953.
Claimant Peers, in the company of Major William Jones and two young ladies, was returning to New York City after a picnic on a part of Jones Beach. The party was proceeding northerly on Wantagh Boulevard, Nassau County, in an automobile owned by claimant. Near Sunrise Highway, Peers, who was driving, pulled the car over to a plot adjoining the highway so that Major Jones could drive the rest of the way into the city.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Burt v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Halberstadt v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Dean v. . KochendorferNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
- Hodge v. SkinnerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1938
- Armstrong v. MishkinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1955
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Watson v. City of New YorkCivil Court of the City of New York · 1968
- Foster v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1968
- Jankowiak v. McAllister, New York County Courts1986