Porter v. Ritch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the unlawful detention and restraint of the plaintiff, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the ruling of the court. The complaint in this action is in three counts.
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Action to recover damages for the unlawful detention and restraint of the plaintiff, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the court, Prentice, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the ruling of the court. The complaint in this action is in three counts. The gist of the whole action is that the defendants conspired together to obtain from the plaintiff a very large sum of money, and that in pursuance of such conspiracy they made a false and malicious complaint to the judge of probate in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
There is quite a long list of reasons of appeal, but it will not be necessary to consider them in detail. They are only an expansion of the claims made by the plaintiff at the trial, and these may all be disposed of by considering a few general propositions.
If the Act of 1889 was constitutional, especially that part of it which is relied on to support the order made by the judge of probate in Stamford on the 18th day of December, 1893, and if the law is so that the proceeding was pending, at the time that order was made, and the order was not void on its face, and if there was no error in the…
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