Driskell v. Alfano

In an action to recover damages for false arrest and false imprisonment, defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County, rendered February 19, 1960, after a nonjury trial, in favor of plaintiff. Defendant, an investigator in the employ of the -Division of Licenses in the State Department of this State, in the course of executing his duties on July 7, 1955; observed what he thought were various violations of law committed in a barber shop owned by one Frazier. Frazier told defendant that he, Frazier, was Mansfield Driskell (the plaintiff), at the same time exhibiting…