Gates v. Union Sawmill Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Union; Robert Brooks Dawkins, Judge. Action by H. E. Gates against the Union Sawmill Company. Judgment, for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiff instituted this suit, in behalf of his minor son, William Gates, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution by the defendant’s agents of his said son for trespass on certain timbered lands.
The defense is want of malice and the existence of probable cause for the prosecution. There was a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $1,000, actual damages, and the defendant has appealed from the judgment rendered pursuant to the award of the jury.
A bill of information was filed by the district attorney for the parish of Union against Hardy Hall, Bill Gates, and Bob Murry,…
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