Lemay v. Williams

Walker, J.:

Williams brought an action in the Lafayette Circuit Court against Lemay for damages sustained by him on account of a malicious prosecution by attachment by Lemay in a justice’s court against Williams.. The action in the justice’s court was commenced November 1st, 1874, upon a note which purported to have been executed on the 7th of May of that year, for $158, due 25th of December thereafter, and upon a mortgage of that date given on a crop of cotton and corn to be. planted and cultivated in that year, to secure the payment of said note.

The substance of the plaintiff’s allegation…