Legal Opinion

Long v. Rogers

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1850PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Error to the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the • Hon. Nathan Cook. This was an action for a malicious prosecution and was instituted by the defendant against the plaintiff’ in error. The declaration, which is fully set forth in the opinion of the court, was demurred to, but the demurrer was overruled.

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Error to the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the • Hon. Nathan Cook. This was an action for a malicious prosecution and was instituted by the defendant against the plaintiff’ in error. The declaration, which is fully set forth in the opinion of the court, was demurred to, but the demurrer was overruled. By the bill of exceptions it appears, that the plaintiff below introduced in evidence an affidavit, made by the defendant before a justice of the peace, charging the plaintiff and others with having taken his daughter from his premises and detained her without her consent, and the…

1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.

This was an action on the ease for a malicious prosecution. The declaration, the sufficiency of which is called in question by the pleadings, contains but one count, and substantially avers that the defendant, maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, &c., on the thirty-first day of August .1S48, in the county of Butler, falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause therefor whatever, charged the plaintiff with having (in connection with others) on the night of the.28th day of Avgust, A. D. 1848, unlawfully taken from the premises of said, defendant his, the said…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Morris v. ScottNew York Supreme Court · 1839
  2. Ragsdale v. BowlesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1849
  3. Branch Bank v. BoykinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1846
  4. Hagerthy v. BradfordSupreme Court of Alabama · 1846
  5. Courtland v. TarltonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1845

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Vinal v. CoreWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1881
  2. Joy Laskar, PH.D. v. Phillip W. HurdCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
  3. Spivey v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
  4. Long v. RodgersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1851
  5. Stewart v. BlairSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911

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