Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was to dismiss the cause of action alleging negligence. A plaintiff seeking damages for an injury resulting from a wrongful arrest and detention may not recover, as here, under broad general principles of negligence, but must proceed by way of the traditional remedies of false arrest and imprisonment...
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