Legal Opinion
Whitson v. May
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1880No. 8382PublishedCited by 8 opinions
From the Washington Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtNiblack, C. J.
This was an action by Sallie May, against James Whitson and Leora Whitson, for an alleged malicious prosecution.
The complaint averred that the defendants had maliciously, and without probable cause, or any sufficient reason therefor, caused a search-warrant to be issued and the dwelling-house of the plaintiff to be searched for divers articles of personal property claimed to have been stolen, and to have been concealed in such dwelling-*270house; that such property had not been found in said dwelling-house, nor had any of it at any time been concealed therein, which the defendants well knew.
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