Straus v. Young
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action for malicious prosecution by the appellee against the appellant and his brothers Samuel and Leopold. The declaration contained two counts.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action for malicious prosecution by the appellee against the appellant and his brothers Samuel and Leopold. The declaration contained two counts. The first alleged that the defendants appeared before John T. Gorsuch, a justice of the peace, and there falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause, charged the plaintiff with having feloniously stolen from them one pair of pantaloons, and upon that charge they caused the said justice to grant his warrant for her arrest, and caused the said plaintiff' to be…
1Opinion of the CourtGrason, J.
This action was brought for an alleged malicious prosecution, and at the trial below the plaintiff offered three prayers, the first and second of which were granted and the third conceded, and the defendant six, of which the first and fourth were rejected, the second was conceded by the plaintiff, and the third, fifth and sixth were granted, and the defendant excepted to the granting of the plaintiff’s prayers, and to the rejection of the first and fourth of his own, and the judgment being against him he took this appeal.
The first prayer asked an instruction that if the. jury should find that…
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