Legal Opinion
Tsachalis v. City of Mount Vernon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 8, 2002PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for false arrest, the plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Donovan, J.), dated June 20, 2000, which, upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendants and against him, dismissed the complaint.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered, with costs to abide the event.
The plaintiff contends that the trial court erroneously charged the jury that, to prevail on his claims for false arrest and false imprisonment, he had the…
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