Brown v. Connelly

Connelly sued Brown for malicious prosecution. The declaration states that the defendant, by falsely and maliciously making an affidavit that the plaintiff had feloniously stolen his cow, had caused the plaintiff to be arrested under a justice’s ■ warrant, and to be imprisoned until, &c. There áre two special pleas relying on probable cause. The first merely states, in general terms, that the defendant had a probable cause for the prosecution. The second sets out the facts as follows: That the plaintiff drove away the defendant’s cow from Tippecanoe county to Putnam county, without the…