Thompson v. Price

This is a suit for malicious prosecution, in which the plaintiff recovered, and defendant brings error.

The plaintiff was supervisor of the township of Eavenna in the year 1892. The defendant, in the month of December, 1892, caused the arrest of plaintiff on the charge of having willfully neglected the duty of requiring of one Albro Enos, a resident tax-payer, a statement of the taxable property owned by him, and subject to assessment in the township. An information was filed in the criminal proceedings, and was, on motion, quashed by the circuit court, on the ground that the statute imposing…