Laville v. Biguenaud

This is an action for damages for a malicious prosecution, and for public defamation.

The prosecution charged to be malicious was an affidavit made by defendant before a Justice of the Peace, that plaintiff had committed perjury in a suit wherein one Champagne was plaintiff, and the affiant was defendant. Upon this affidavit plaintiff was arrested, and, alter examination, was discharged by the Justice.

The slander charged is, that defendant publicly declared that plaintiff “ had perjured himself in the case above mentioned, and that, cost what may, he would have him sent to the penitentiary at…