Morrell v. Martin

In this case defendant in error brought her action in the conrt below, against plaintiff in error, and in her declaration of seven counts, sets up a cause of action in case, for malicious prosecution in the four first, and trespass vi et armis for false imprisonment in the remaining three counts. Defendant below interposed a plea of “not guilty ” to the whole declaration, with a special plea of justification to the 5th, 6th and 7th counts, setting up that Morrell went before "Williamson, a justice of the peace, and made oath that defendant in error, on January 8, 1885, at the house of Nancy…