Devine v. Hammer
This text of 221 A.D. 50 (Devine v. Hammer) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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A complaint in an action for false arrest must allege that the arrest was illegal or made without a warrant. The plaintiff having failed to allege such facts, the complaint was properly dismissed.
The judgment should, therefore, be affirmed, with costs.
Present — Dowling, P. J., Merrell, Martin, O’Malley and Proskauer, JJ.; O’Malley and Proskauer, JJ., dissent.
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