Castro v. De Uriarte

This is a motion for a new trial, made by the plaintiff, for alleged error of the court in directing a verdict for the defendant. The action was brought against the defendant, the consul general of Spain, for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution in extradition proceedings, upon the complaint of the defendant, in which the plaintiff was arrested and brought before a commissioner on October 2,1881, and subsequently discharged for the reason that the offense of forgery for which he was arrested, was committed, as it subsequently appeared, before the ratification of the treaty with Spain.…