Staton v. Mason
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, General G. Staton, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 26th day of December, 1905, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case upon a trial at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J.:
This action is brought to recover damages for malicious prosecution. The plaintiff had purchased from the defendant, in the borough of Brooklyn, to be used at his plac'e of residence in that borough, certain furniture, to-be paid for at stated intervals in small installments, and had given to the defendant a chattel mortgage on the property purchased, in order to secure the payments. Before the purchase money was all paid, the plaintiff shipped the prop- ' ert-y to North Carolina, and, on learning that fact-, the credit clerk of- the defendant instituted proceedings in the…
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