Holden v. Merritt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for malicious, prosecution. Trial to a jury, verdict and judgment for plainti.fi:, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
It is claimed in the petition that the defendant maliciously, and. without .probable..cause, *708induced one Eaton, a postoffice inspector of the United States for the state of Iowa, to file an information before a United States commissioner accusing plaintiff of having taken from the postoffice in Central City, Iowa, about the second of July», 1891, a letter or package addressed to the defendant, and of opening the same, without defendant’s consent, with the design of obstructing the correspondence and prying into the business and secrets of the defendant, and with endeavoring to conceal and…
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