Manchester Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Porter
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Chesterfield county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The defendant in error instituted his action of trespass on the case to recover damages upon the ground, as is averred in the first and second counts of the declaration, that the plaintiffs in error had maliciously and without prohable cause distrained his goods for rent when there was no rent due or owing, and had, as averred in the third count, wrongfully taken and carried away his goods and converted them to their own use.
There was a demurrer to the declaration and to each count thereof, which was overruled. This action of the court as to the first and third counts is assigned as error.
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