Stanhope v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

This action was instituted in the Kenton circuit court in 1917 by appellant, Stanhope, against the C., N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. and J. E. Wallin to recover fifty thousand ($50,000.00) dollars damages for false and malicious prosecution by the defendants, and each of them, of and against appellant in the federal court on a charge of breaking into and stealing from a railroad freight car, carrying an interstate shipment of whiskey, and for having in possession stolen goods, and also for selling and offering to sell whiskey, an intoxicant, in violation…