Woodward v. Ragland
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment on verdict in an action for malicious arrest. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: On the 17th day of April, 1891, the appellees, Fannie C. Ragland and Henry Lee Ragland, her husband, as plaintiffs, filed their declaration in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, against the appellants, S. Walter Woodward, Alvin M. Lothrop, George F. Hendrick, and Charles E. Flinder, as defendants, in which the…
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment on verdict in an action for malicious arrest. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: On the 17th day of April, 1891, the appellees, Fannie C. Ragland and Henry Lee Ragland, her husband, as plaintiffs, filed their declaration in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, against the appellants, S. Walter Woodward, Alvin M. Lothrop, George F. Hendrick, and Charles E. Flinder, as defendants, in which the plaintiffs aver that the defendants, S. Walter Woodward and Alvin M. Lothrop, were partners doing business in the city…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Bingham,
of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, who sat with the Court in the place of Mr. Justice Morris, delivered the opinion of the Court:
On the trial various exceptions were reserved by the defendants to the admission and rejection of testimony by the court, to granting prayers of the plaintiffs, and the rejection of some of those offered by the defendants, and to portions of the charge given by the court to the jury on its own motion. But in the disposition of the case, we only find it necessary to discuss comparatively few of these exceptions, and mainly…
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