Downing v. . Stone

Action to recover damages for malicious prosecution.

There was evidence tending to show that on or about 25 April, 1908, the defendant had caused the arrest and imprisonment of plaintiff on a charge of having obtained from said defendant, as landlord, with intent to cheat and defraud, advances and supplies to plaintiff as tenant. The prosecution having been instituted under section 3431 of Revisal, which gives a justice final jurisdiction, the evidence further showed that the plaintiff had been acquitted by the justice who tried the case.

There was evidence on the part of plaintiff tending to…