Leaird v. Davis

The defendant in error, who was the plaintiff below, brought his action of trespass on the case against *28Leaird for a malicious prosecution. Pleas, not guilty, and probable cause. Judgment on verdict against plaintiff in error for seventy-five dollars.

Upon the trial in the court below the defendant in that court proved that he had detailed to a lawyer all the facts applicable to the prosecution which he afterwards set on foot, and for which this suit was brought, and that the attorney gave him advice, upon said state of facts, that the plaintiff below had been guilty of negro-stealing, and…