Armstrong v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita. Riehardson, J. Aaron A. Armstrong, J. Van Harper, Isaac J. Brooks, Martin H. Hunnicutt and A. J. Bush join in a petition, in which they pray for a judgment of ten thousand dollars against the defendant company, as damages for a malicious prosecution.
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APPEAL from the Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita. Riehardson, J. Aaron A. Armstrong, J. Van Harper, Isaac J. Brooks, Martin H. Hunnicutt and A. J. Bush join in a petition, in which they pray for a judgment of ten thousand dollars against the defendant company, as damages for a malicious prosecution. The action is founded upon the following allegations: That on the 28th of August, 1893, they were arrested by the sheriff of the parish of Ouachita, under a warrant issued by the Judge of the Fifth District Court which was based on an affidavit made before him by J. T. Howard and J. A.…
1Opinion of the Court
*1454On the Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
Appellees would place this case before us as if five different individuals having separate and distinct causes of action against a'particular corporation had brought in the same petition five distinct demands against it, and had each obtained against it a separate and distinct judgment in his favor. It is argued that the demand of each of the plaintiffs against the defendants was really for two thousand dollars, and that by the judgment appealed from, the District Court adjudged to each of them the sum of five…
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