Labar v. Crane

This is an action for malicious prosecution. The salient facts are that in October, 1879, the defendant Crane instituted a prosecution of the plaintiff before a justice of the peace of Kalamazoo, charging him with making an assault upon complainant with a gun, with intent to murder ; that plaintiff was arrested upon this charge, but after a continuance of the case for a time, the complaint was withdrawn and one for simple assault and battery substituted,, upon which plaintiff was tried and convicted; that plaintiff appealed the case to the circuit court, where he was tried and acquitted; that…