Clark v. Carroll

This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellee for malicious prosecution. Verdict and judgment having been rendered for the defendant, the plaintiff appealed, upon exceptions taken at the trial. Since the appeal, the defendant in the suit, the appellee here, has died. Suggestion thereof has been duly made, accompanied by affidavit of a witness to the fact, which is not controverted, and a motion has been made to dismiss the appeal. In Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company vs. Ritchie, 81 Md., 198, this Court said, “suits for injuries to the person or character, die with the person…