Morin v. Moreau
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. Action to recover damages for malicious prosecution. The defendant was arrested on a warrant issued by the Municipal Court of Lewiston, in the County of Androscoggin, on complaint of the defendant. Plea, the general issue and brief statement, setting up a justification for the arrest.
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On exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. Action to recover damages for malicious prosecution. The defendant was arrested on a warrant issued by the Municipal Court of Lewiston, in the County of Androscoggin, on complaint of the defendant. Plea, the general issue and brief statement, setting up a justification for the arrest. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $196.00. The defendant filed exceptions to the exclusion of certain evidence, which are considered in the opinion. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.
This was an action to recover damages for a malicious prosecution. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $196.00, and the case is before the Court on exceptions to the ruling of the presiding Justice excluding certain evidence.
The following from the exceptions substantially states the facts involved:
“The defendant owned a tenement house in Lewiston, the plaintiff was his tenant; the defendant ordered the plaintiff out of his rent; there was a bed of chives in the garden that both of the parties hereto claimed to own; the plaintiff pulled them up; the defendant went to…
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