Sternack v. Brooks

Citations

• 7 Daly 142

Syllabus

<p>In order to justify a policeman in the city of New York in arresting a person without a warrant, or to justify one procuring such arrest, the act for which the arrest is made, whether it he regarded as constituting or tending to a breach of the peace, must he committed in the immediate presence of such officer.</p> <p>The case of the Master Stevedores Association v. Walsh (2 Daly, 1) as to the extent to which trades associations can legally go in controlling the rate of wages considered, and its authority said not to be afieoted by the. act of 1870 (L. 1870, c. 19) concerning the peaceable assembling of workmen.</p>