Powell v. Woodbury
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for malicious prosecution. Plea, the general issue with notice. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1911, Chittenden County, Butler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This is an action for malicious prosecution. The essential facts are these, in substance. Before and on May 8,1909, George M. Delaney owned the Hotel Burlington property in Burlington, where he had carried on the hotel business for many years; but it had come to pass that he was financially embarrassed, and so on that day he conveyed to the plaintiff, *506his largest creditor, by his quitclaim deed of that date, all of said property in trust for the benefit of his creditors in pro rata share, except the secured creditors, who were the plaintiff and Payette, Meldenshon & Co., the purpose of said…
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