Leach v. Stone

So far as necessary to state, this suit was instituted by John H. Stone against H. F. Leach and George Cock-burn, upon allegations to the effect that the defendants had converted certain tools and equipment belonging to the plaintiff, of the alleged value of $675.50, for which he sought to recover the sum of $5,000 actual damages and $5,000 exemplary damages for alleged malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. It was claimed that the tools and equipment alleged to have been converted were used by the plaintiff in his business in conducting a meat market, and that the defendant Cock-burn,…