Stansbury v. Fogle
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the . Court. Exception. — The plaintiff offered the following prayers : 1. If the jury shall believe from the evidence in the cause that the defendant instituted or caused to be instituted the prosecution under which the plaintiff was arrested, maliciously and without probable cause, and shall further find that said prosecution is terminated, then tlieir verdict must be for…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the . Court. Exception. — The plaintiff offered the following prayers : 1. If the jury shall believe from the evidence in the cause that the defendant instituted or caused to be instituted the prosecution under which the plaintiff was arrested, maliciously and without probable cause, and shall further find that said prosecution is terminated, then tlieir verdict must be for the plaintiff. 2. If the jury believe from the evidence that said prosecution was instituted, or caused to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.,
delivered.the opinion of the Court.
In several very recent cases, one of which (Cooper vs. Utterbach, ante. 282,) has been decided at the present term, this Court has had occasion to consider the general *379rules of law governing actions for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment, and we shall therefore proceed^at once to determine the particular questions presented for review by this appeal. These are the rulings of the Superior Court in granting the three prayers offered by the plaintiff, and rejecting the defendant’s first, fifth and seventh prayers.
1st. The objections to the…
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