Hazelton v. Valentine
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort. Writ dated September 15, 1870. The declaration alleged that the defendant, designing and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, and to cause him to be arrested and imprisoned, maliciously sued out a writ from the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and maliciously made oath that the plaintiff owed him $25,000, for money by him paid for the use arid at the request of the plaintiff, and July 18, 1866, caused the plaintiff to be arrested on the writ, and imprisoned in…
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Tort. Writ dated September 15, 1870. The declaration alleged that the defendant, designing and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, and to cause him to be arrested and imprisoned, maliciously sued out a writ from the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and maliciously made oath that the plaintiff owed him $25,000, for money by him paid for the use arid at the request of the plaintiff, and July 18, 1866, caused the plaintiff to be arrested on the writ, and imprisoned in the common jail, in the city and county of St. John, in the Province of New Brunswick, and detained him in close…
1Opinion of the Court
Endicott, J.*
It appears from the report that the plaintiff was appointed, January 6, 1863, by the Probate Court for the county of Middlesex, administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Charles Valentine. He gave bond as administrator with the defendant and his brother Henry Valentine as sureties. He filed an inventory, but failed to render any account until January 6, 1866. He then resigned his trust, and filed an account by which it appears that he had in his-hands as administrator a balance of forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. On the same day, the…
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