McLaughlin v. Smith

The appellants, Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin, who are citizens and residents of Horn Lake, Mississippi, recovered a judgment in the General Sessions Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, in the amount of $2,499.99 against the defendants, W. E. Smith and Jerry R. Hall, enforcement agents of the Division of Fish and Game, Department of Conservation of the State of Tennessee. The suit arose out of an alleged unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution of Mrs. McLaughlin on charges of transporting minnows into the state bought from an unapproved hatchery and charges of transporting minnows into the state…