Munro Hotel Co. v. Brough

The action below was one to recover damages for maliciously and wrongfully suing out an attachment and garnishing funds of the defendant in error in the Fifth-Third National Bank of Cincinnati.

It appears that one James A. Brough, the son of the defendant in error, contracted a hotel bill at the Munro Hotel, operated by the plaintiff in error company, amounting to $27.50; that he had left the hotel without paying this bill, and in his room was found after he had left a suit ease containing, among *90other things, several returned canceled checks on the Fifth-Third National Bank, signed by Janies…