Lippert v. State of New York
| Decision Date | 28 February 1955 |
| Citation | 207 Misc. 632 |
| Parties | Charles M. Lippert, Claimant,<BR>v.<BR>State of New York, Defendant. (Claim No. 32250.) |
| Court | New York Court of Claims |
James F. Crowley for claimant.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Frank M. Noonan and Neil R. Farnelo of counsel), for defendant.
This claim has been filed against the State of New York to recover damages for the alleged false arrest and unlawful imprisonment of, and for the alleged assault upon claimant by the State of New York, acting through its duly authorized State troopers.
Late in the evening of August 22, 1953, claimant was driving easterly on Route 17 at a point approximately four miles west of the village of Allegany, New York. At said point he was stopped by two New York State troopers in a patrol car, and he was asked to exhibit to them his driver's license and his automobile registration. He had with him his driver's license, but the automobile registration certificate which he produced was for an automobile truck which he owned and was not for the automobile which he was then and there driving. When he asked the troopers why he had been stopped, he was told that they had observed him weaving from one side of the highway across the white line in the center and on to the other side thereof. After some conversation in which claimant became quite excited and violent, he grabbed both his certificate of registration and his driver's license from the hands of trooper Bogucki, one of the troopers who had stopped him, and stated: "I will see you down at Stayer's." (S.M. 137.) Stayer was a Justice of the Peace of the Village of Allegany, New York. Claimant then re-entered his car and drove away in the general direction of the village of Allegany, New York. The troopers had with them in their patrol car two persons charged with felony crimes, and feeling that further help was required under the circumstances, they radioed ahead the description of claimant's car and the fact that it was proceeding easterly toward the village of Allegany, New York. The call was picked up by another New York State trooper, one trooper Frarey, who was operating a patrol car in the vicinity.
As trooper Bogucki and his companion, trooper Wright, drove into the village of Allegany, New York, there was another State trooper patrol car standing on the north side of the street headed westerly; and claimant was in the process of parking his automobile on the south side of the street. Trooper Bogucki pulled up in front of claimant's automobile and parked his patrol car.
Trooper Frarey was then coming across the street from his car parked on the north side thereof. Trooper Bogucki came from his automobile and stood on the side of the street between his automobile and claimant's automobile. Trooper Frarey then asked claimant for the registration for the car he was driving. There ensued conversation during the course of which claimant used obscene, violent, and indecent language and called the State troopers vile names, all the while talking in a loud voice — loud enough so that it was heard by at least one person not involved in the fracas who was inside her home and in front of which the Lippert car was stopped. Somewhere in the proceedings and before a hand was laid upon claimant by the troopers, trooper Frarey stated to claimant: "You are under arrest for disorderly conduct" (S.M. 141), immediately after which he asked Mr. Lippert to accompany him to his patrol car and informed him that he was going to take him before Justice Stayer. Claimant refused to go, he forcibly resisted arrest and being taken into custody, and started scuffling with the troopers. Claimant's resistance and struggling was such that it took the combined efforts of troopers Bogucki and Frarey to get him into the latter's patrol car, but only after handcuffs had been placed upon both his wrists. The handcuffs which were placed upon claimant's wrists cut somewhat into his wrists, and there was some bleeding.
Trooper Frarey then drove to the office of Justice of the Peace Stayer. En route and at the office of the Justice claimant continued to use violent and offensive language toward trooper Frarey and upon arriving at the office of the Justice he caused a commotion and continued to threaten trooper Frarey with bodily injury. An information was drawn up and signed by trooper Frarey charging claimant with disorderly conduct under section 722 of the Penal Law of the State of New York although we are not told under what particular subdivision thereof he was charged. Claimant was duly arraigned, and the matter was put over until another day for disposition.
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