Dugas v. Darden

Graham C. Dugas sued Allen Darden, alleging substantially that he had purchased from the defendant a diamond ring, giving him as full and complete payment therefor his promissory note for $500, upon which he had made several payments^ that since then the defendant had prosecuted the plaintiff upon a charge of larceny after trust with reference to the ring transaction, and had also brought trover for recovery of the ring; that in so doing the defendant had employed the process of the court for a purpose for which it was never intended, to wit: to collect the balance of a debt on a note by…