Harris v. Thomas

The defendants seek in this case to review by writ of error the judgment and proceedings of the Wayne circuit court in an action of trespass on the case, for the malicious prosecution of a suit in replevin. It was plaintiff’s theory, and she put in evidence tending to show, that the defendants Reed and Thomas, well knowing that she had fully paid or tendered the amount due upon a chattel mortgage to said Reed on her household goods, conspired together to extort further sums of money from her under said mortgage, and, to that end, the defendant Thomas made a pretended purchase of said…