Weinberger v. Shelly
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Bucks county, in an action on the case for malicious prosecution, brought by Peter Shelly against Samuel Weinberger, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Bucks county, in an action on the case for malicious prosecution, brought by Peter Shelly against Samuel Weinberger, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff. The declaration complained that “ Samuel Weinberger minding and most wickedly intending him, the said Peter, most unjustly to damnify, oppress and impoverish, at a Court of General Quarter Sessions, held for Bucks county aforesaid, at the Court House in Doylestown, in said county, the 10th day of December 1839, before John Fox, Esquire, President Judge, and his Associates, the justices…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Action on the case, brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error, for a malicious prosecution. First, it is alleged that the court below erred because they did not charge the jury that probable cause was shown, and that there*342fore they ought to find for the defendant. It appears to us that if the court had so charged the jury, they would have erred: for evidence was given on the part of the plaintiff, tending to show that the defendant had determined on prosecuting the plaintiff for stealing the cow, whether there was…
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