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KIPP v. SIEGEL-COOPER COMPANY

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 1, 1910
136 App. Div. 918 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)

Opinion

January, 1910.


The defendant demurs to the complaint upon the ground that it unites a cause of action for assault and battery (first cause of action) with a cause of action for slander combined with a cause of action for false imprisonment (second cause of action). It is true that a cause of action for assault and battery or for false imprisonment cannot be united with a cause of action for slander ( De Wolfe v. Abraham, 151 N.Y. 186), but I think the plaintiff has hardly done this. The first cause of action is clearly for assault and battery, and the second cause of action would be clearly for false imprisonment had not the complaint (Subd. XI) stated the accusation of slander. But the statement is not the principal one, and I think that it was properly pleaded to show the pretense of the arrest and may be the malice of the actors. The false imprisonment was continuing when the words were used, and their utterance was a part of the res gestæ. In subdivision XII the pleader states the fact of the plaintiff's innocence and her declaration thereof to the wrongdoers and their persistence in their wrongdoings, and then continues the history of her detention; and subdivision XIII takes up and continues the description of the violence and the circumstances of her imprisonment. It is true that subdivision XIV states "That by reason of the said willful and unlawful accusations and actions," etc., plaintiff was subjected to great indignities, but the false imprisonment is obviously the central cause of harm charged, and subdivision XV continues and emphasizes this. The interlocutory judgment should be affirmed, with costs. Woodward, Jenks, Burr and Rich, JJ., concurred. Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs.


Summaries of

KIPP v. SIEGEL-COOPER COMPANY

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 1, 1910
136 App. Div. 918 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)
Case details for

KIPP v. SIEGEL-COOPER COMPANY

Case Details

Full title:CORNELIA D. KIPP, an Infant, by ELBERT KIPP, Her Guardian ad Litem…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jan 1, 1910

Citations

136 App. Div. 918 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)