White Water Valley Canal Co. v. Dow

Blackford, J. —

'This was an action brought by Dow against the appellants.

The declaration states that the defendants, falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause, procured, from a certain justice of the peace, a writ of attachment, in the name of the state of Indiana, which writ commanded the constable, Bruning, one of the defendants, to summon one Boden, the captain of a certain canal boat of the plaintiff’s, to answer the White Water Valley Canal Company in a plea of debt under 100 dollars, and also to attach the boat and keep the same until payment of said demand;…