Witham v. Gregory & Read Co.

By the Court.

These are actions for false arrest and malicious prosecution. The plaintiffs were arrested on the charge of vagrancy by the chief of police of the town of Framingham, tried upon complaints signed and sworn to by a police officer of that town, and discharged after trial in the District Court. There was evidence tending to show that the plaintiffs, both residents of Lynn and members of a shoe workers’ union in Lynn, one being business agent and the other shop collector, went late on a June afternoon by train from Boston to Framingham, where there was a shop of the defendant, past…