Richardson v. Powers
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of the First Judicial District, in and for the County of Santa Cruz. Geo. R. Davis, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKent, C. J.
— This is an action for damages for malicious prosecution. The complaint alleges that in September, 1903, Powers brought a complaint before a justice of the peace, charging Richardson with having committed a felony by “digging a hole or shaft, and by putting up or constructing a fence upon or across a public road used by the public”; and that Powers caused and procured the indictment of Richardson by the grand jury for the alleged crime, which indictment was subsequently by the district court dismissed, and such action of the district court subsequently upheld by the supreme court on appeal;…
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