San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Griffin

GOLLABD, Associate Justice.

The appellee, Moody Griffin, on the 8th day of February, 1896, brought this suit against the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Bailway Company, the appellant, for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, alleging that appellant, by its agent, Chas. F. Murphy, on or about the 88th day of December, 1895, unlawfully, maliciously, and without probable cause arrested and prosecuted appellee for theft and embezzlement of appellant’s coal, and caused him to be imprisoned in the county jail of McLennan County, to his actual damage $5000 and exemplary damages $15,000.…