Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. O'Neal
Supreme Court of Alabama
Malicious Prosecution and False Imprisonment. Appeal from Birmingham City Court, Heard before Hon. C. W. Ferguson. Action by Charles A. O’Neal against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, in malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Plaintiff was prosecuted for an assault with intent to murder upon one Stith, who appears to have been in the employment of the defendant company.
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Malicious Prosecution and False Imprisonment. Appeal from Birmingham City Court, Heard before Hon. C. W. Ferguson. Action by Charles A. O’Neal against the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, in malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Plaintiff was prosecuted for an assault with intent to murder upon one Stith, who appears to have been in the employment of the defendant company. The facts leading up to the prosecution and the question of the participation of the company therein through its agents are sufficiently intimated in the opinion of…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
This was an action of malicious prosecution, and grew out of an assault made upon one Stitb, in 1904, who was at tbe time superintendent of tbe defendant company’s mine at Brookside. It appeared without any sort of contradiction that in tbe prosecution which followed, and of which tbe plaintiff *86complained, Mr. Bradley, an attorney at law, had prepared the affidavits for warrants — there were two — in consultation with Stith and J. W. McQueen, secretary, treasurer, and vice-president of the defendant company, and had appeared in court advising about the prosecution of the cases so made.…
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