Clifford v. Great Falls Gas Co.

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant the sum of $200 which is alleged to have been unlawfully obtained from him by the use of force, coercion and threats. The case was tried to a jury, and at the close of the testimony on the part of the plaintiff the court sustained defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, whereupon judgment was entered in its favor, from which the plaintiff has appealed. The ruling of the court on the motion for nonsuit is assigned as error.

We approach a consideration of this case bearing in mind the rule so frequently announced by this court that on a…