Rawson v. Leggett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Francis H. Leggett and others, from, a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 24th day of October, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury ifor $25,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of November, 1903, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
Plaintiff had a verdict for damages he claims to have sustained on account of the malicious prosecution of the defendants. For many years they had conducted a large wholesale business with *418over 18,000 customers. The plaintiff prior to his arrest was for many years employed by the firm as head credit man, with complete charge of the credit department, and was such during all the: - time that Borchardt, one of the firm’s salesmen, was connected with them. In November, 1901, it was discovered that Borchardt had embezzled over $24,000 of the firm’s money. Up to that time the; latter…
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