Comley v. American Motorist Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a police officer committed a battery when he touched the plaintiff during an unlawful arrest
• holding that a police officer committed a battery when he touched the plaintiff during an unlawful arrest
• holding that a police officer committed a battery when he touched the plaintiff during an unlawful arrest
• granting judgment as a matter of law on assault and battery after a previous judgment finding false arrest and a jury verdict finding for defendant on assault and battery
• police officer committed a battery when he touched the plaintiff during an unlawful arrest
• “As the arrest of the plaintiff by the defendant [police officer] was unlawful, [the officer] committed a battery when he touched the plaintiff during that arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).