Potter v. Casterline

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Woodhull, J.

Casterline, the plaintiff below, brought his action on the case in the Middlesex.Circuit Court, against Potter, the defendant below, complaining that he had falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause, procured him to be arrested for the crime of larceny.

The declaration sets out the issuing of a warrant by a justice of the peace, on the application of the defendant; the arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff, by virtue of it, until he had entered into recognizance for his appearance at the next Court of Oyer and…