Bach v. Cook

Bach, the plaintiff in the court below, and appellant here, sued Cook in an action on the case for malicious prosecution.

The declaration is in the usual form, and alleges that the defendant falsely, maliciously, and without probable cause of action, caused to be issued, by a justice of the peace, a writ of attachment against the plaintiff as executor de son tort of John Bach, deceased, by which certain goods and chattels of the plaintiff were attached and taken out of his possession to secure a debt of seventy dollars, whereby the plaintiff was damaged, etc.

The case being tried before a jury…