TAGGART v. ALEXANDER'S, INC.


90 A.D.2d 542 (1982)

George C. Taggart, as Administrator, Appellant, v. Alexander's, Inc., Respondent, et al., Defendant

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

October 25, 1982


Judgment reversed, on the law, and as between plaintiff and Alexander's, action severed and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.

Decedent, age 17, was stopped by defendant Mark Farmer, a security guard employed by the defendant Alexander's, Inc., while allegedly leaving an Alexander's department store with a garment which, defendants alleged, was being shoplifted. There was an altercation in which blows were...

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