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12 Abb. Pr. 446

Rost v. Harris

The Superior Court of New York City

Decided September 15, 1861

The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1861-09-15

Motion to strike out part of an answer. This action was brought against two defendants for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. The complaint alleged that one of the defendants was in the employ of the other, in business in the city of New York.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1897

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1861-09-15

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Bosworth, Ch. J.

¶1—The third defence is, in substance, that the affidavits on which the plaintiff was arrested state truly the representations which the plaintiff made, and that the representations were false, and that such facts constituted probable cause.

¶2The defence contains no new matter. If it states accurately the whole contents of the affidavits on which plaintiff was arrested, and if the defendants’ opinion that they constitute probable cause is correct, then it attempts to demonstrate that there was probable cause for making the complaint on which the plaintiff was arrested.

¶3The second paragraph of the answer denies every allegation of the complaint not admitted by the first.

¶4It therefore denies that the plaintiff’s arrest was wilful or malicious, or without any probable cause.

¶5The third defence does no more than attempt to detail the actual'facts, and insist they constitute probable cause. I think all of these alleged facts are but matters of evidence upon the issues raised by the second paragraph of the answer, and that the third defence should be stricken out, as not containing any *448new matter, nor denying any allegation of the complaint not previously controverted, and as being entirely redundant matter. (3 Duer, 684.)

¶6I do not see that the plaintiff would be embarrassed by the matter remaining on the record. Seven dollars costs of the motion will be directed, to abide the event.

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