PEERS v. STATE OF NEW YORK


6 Misc.2d 779 (1957)

Henry M. Peers, Jr., Claimant, v. State of New York, Defendant. (Claim No. 32680.)

Court of Claims.

July 30, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Fowler for claimant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Robert Schwartz of counsel), for defendant.


RICHARD 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...

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