McNair v. Maijgren
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thorvald Maijgren, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the. county of New York on the 17th day of February, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of March, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Shearn, J.:
There was a verdict for plaintiff in an action for a malicious prosecution, based upon the arrest of plaintiff at Philadelphia on a warrant sworn out by- defendant, charging plaintiff with the crime of larceny, in having stolen a case of surgical instruments of the value of $200, the property of the Electro Surgical Instrument Company of Rochester. The plaintiff had been for some time prior to his arrest a salesman in the employ of the company, using samples furnished and owned by the company. The defendant was the general manager of the company and the arrest was occasioned by the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Halberstadt v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
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