Biehn v. Bannick

Holcomb, "J.

This action was instituted by respondents against appellants for twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars damages for false arrest, imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The chief adversaries in the litigation are respondents and appellant Underhill, a deputy under appellant Bannick, sheriff of King county. The surety company was sued as surety on the sheriff’s bond.

This action arose out of a controversy as to the ownership of a certain Jersey-Gfuernsey cow which respondents had raised from a calf. They had kept it in their possession on their property in Kirkland until they…