Chrisman v. Carney

EaKIN, J.:

Chrisman, a resident of Pulaski County, keeping a hotel at Little Rock, was sued and served with process in White County. The complaint contained two paragraphs.

The first was for false imprisonment in causing the plaintiff to be arrested without any authority of warrant, or process, or oath made before any proper officer, and without reasonable cause to believe that he had been guilty of any crime.

The second paragraph was, in effect, for malicious prosecution, charging that defendant falsely, maliciously, and without probable cause, procured a warrant from a justice of the peace of…