SIEGEL v. CITY OF N. Y.


43 A.D.2d 271 (1974)

Harold M. Siegel, Appellant, v. City of New York, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

January 8, 1974


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Lichtenberg (John Jay with him on the brief), for appellant.

Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel (Irving Cohen with him on the brief; Norman Redlich, Corporation Counsel), for respondent.

LANE and TILZER, JJ., concur with MURPHY, J.; KUPFERMAN J., concurs, in part, in an opinion, in which McGIVERN, P. J., concurs.


MURPHY, J.

In this action for false arrest and false imprisonment in which the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, plaintiff claims he was forcibly taken to Bellevue Hospital in the early hours of the morning of December 22, 1966 by several police officers who gained access to his apartment only after threatening to break the door down. Respondent, on the other hand, claims the police officers were merely...

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