Allen v. Lopinsky
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, McDowell County. Action by Lester B. Allen, by -his next friend, against Eugene Lopkinsky. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JüDGE :
The $1,500.00 judgment complained of was entered upon a verdict virtually directed by the court in an action for unlawful and malicious arrest and imprisonment, prosecuted by an infant suing by his next friend.
As the brief contains no discussion of the assignment of error based upon the overruling of the demurrer to the declaration, nor any argument in support thereof, that assignment is deemed to have been abandoned. Moreover, no defect in the declaration is perceived.
The arrest was actually made by the night watchman of the town of Welch, but upon the request of the…
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- Claiborne v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1899
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