Ramsey v. Flowers
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. Flbridge G. Mitchell, Judge. Action by R. E. R. Flowers against Frank Ramsey and others. From a judgment for plaintiff defendants have appealed.
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Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court. Flbridge G. Mitchell, Judge. Action by R. E. R. Flowers against Frank Ramsey and others. From a judgment for plaintiff defendants have appealed. It was error to allow Flowers, as a witness, to testify as to what amount of damage he estimated he had sustained in reputation. 47 Ark. 497. Proceedings before a United States commissioner are not court proceedings. 158 U. S. 278. It was error to allow the introduction of the proceedings had and papers filed before such commissioner. Sentence by federal court to jail for making whiskey does not disqualify witness.…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
This is a suit for malicious prosecution, instituted by the appellee against appellants on a claim for damages in the sum of $10,000, tried and determined before a jury in the Cleburne circuit court, on the 9th day of April, 1901, upon pleadings and evidence, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff for the sum of $500, and defendants filed their motion for new trial, which being overruled they excepted, and appealed to this court.
In their motion for new trial, they made seventeen several assignments of error, of which only six are insisted on here.
1. They say that it was error to admit the…
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- Chin Bak Kan v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
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