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John F. CALLAHAN, respondent, v. The CONEY ISLAND AND BROOKLYN RAILROAD COMPANY, appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
    March 31, 1916.)
    Judgment and order reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide the event. The plaintiff sued upon two causes of action, namely, false arrest and malicious prosecution. He recovered a general verdict. Although the evidence was sufficient to uphold a verdict upon the first cause inasmuch as it justified the conclusion that defendant through its officer or officers personally participated in the arrest by direct act or personal procurement, and therefore the defendant could be held liable unless it established justification (Schultz v. Greenwood Cemetery, 190 N. Y. 278, S3 N. E. 41; Farman v. Feeley, 56 N. Y. 453), there must be a new trial, inasmuch as, upon the second cause of action, the plaintiff, with the burden to prove want of probable cause and malice (Schultz v. Greenwood Cemetery, supra; Rawson v. Leggett, 184 N. Y. 504, 77 N. E. 6G2), failed to establish that cause of action by a fair preponderance of credible proof (Schultz v. Greenwood Cemetery, supra; Newell on Malicious Prosecution, p. 290). It was essential that he should establish both want of probable cause and malice. Conner v. Wetraore, 110 App. Div. 440, 96 N. Y. Supp. 999.
   Jenks, P. J., and Stapleton, Mills, Rich, and Putnam, JJ., concur.