Judgment modified, on the law, by setting aside the award of $15,000 for punitive damages and reducing the total recovery to $15,000 plus costs. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs.
The trial court's instruction to the jury that the arrest of plaintiff was illegal as a matter of law was correct under the law existing in 1964 (cf. Code Crim Pro, § 177; L 1963, ch 580, § 1; and former Penal Law, §§ 2, 722; L...
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