Connery v. Manning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for false imprisonment and for malicious prosecution. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., who, at the defendant’s request, directed the jury to render a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for false imprisonment and for malicious prosecution, and the case comes before us on exceptions to a ruling of the judge directing a verdict for the defendant. The alleged false imprisonment was an arrest upon the criminal complaint constituting the alleged malicious prosecution. By all the testimony, the defendant did not authorize it, and it was made upon a lawful warrant duly issued.* Mullen v. Brown, 138 Mass. 114. Coupal v. Ward, 106 Mass. 289. The exception to the ruling upon this part of the case is not much pressed.
The criminal complaint was for obtaining goods…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Coupal v. WardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Allen v. CodmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Sartwell v. ParkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Mullen v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- Monaghan v. CoxMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
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- Higgins v. PrattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Jackson v. KnowltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Keefe v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- F. W. Stock & Sons v. DellapennaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Black v. BuckinghamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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