Bailey v. Gollehon

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The judgment of which complaint is made on this writ of error rests on a verdict affirming the charge of malicious prosecution and assessing the damages at the sum of $250.00. Rulings on instructions, the motion to set aside the verdict and the admission and rejection of evidence constitute the grounds of the principal assignments of error.

The plaintiff in error, a justice of the peace, accused Bailey of having abstracted from the pocket of Harman, a constable, a package of papers, consisting of executions and other writs, and put it in a stove and caused it to be consumed…