Haschke v. Orr

In this case there was a recovery of a judgment for $1,000 for an alleged malicious prosecution. The charge in the declaration is that the defendants (the appellants) maliciously procured the arrest of the appellee upon a warrant issued by a justice of the peace, the complaint being that he had feloniously converted to his own use, with intent to steal, property of which he was bailee. There were two trials in the court below. At the time of the first trial only one of the defendants had been served with process. The verdict which was obtained at that time was-somewhat in excess of the second…