Case Name: Anthony Vitterio, Respondent, v. St. Regis Paper Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1922-05
Citations: 202 A.D. 775
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anthony Vitterio, Respondent, v. St. Regis Paper Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 202
Pages: 775–776

Head Matter:
Anthony Vitterio, Respondent, v. St. Regis Paper Company, Appellant.
Action for false imprisonment — damages.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the Jefferson county clerk’s office February '1, 1921, and also from an order entered February 5, 1921, denying a motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
We think that neither information was sufficient to give the justice jurisdiction to issue the warrant, and that the plaintiff made out a cause of action against the defendant, upon the theory that it instigated and carried forward the proceedings, but we are of the opinion that the amount of damages awarded is excessive. No damages should be allowed except such as arose from the unlawful imprisonment. The testimony that the plaintiff paid $350 for attorney's fees and cigars was clearly incompetent and should not have been received. All concur, Davis, J., in result, in a separate memorandum.