Coghlan v. Miller

This is an action for damages for malicious prosecution. Plaintiff recovered judgment and defendant appeals.

Defendant instituted a criminal prosecution against the plaintiff and John A. Glatt by a criminal information, sworn to by defendant before T. F. Hayes, Justice of the Peace, at Woodburn, Oregon, in the following form:

“Gomes now Nicholas Miller who being first duly sworn, says that Charles Coghlan and John A. Glatt are guilty of the crime of assault upon another with a dangerous weapon committed as follows:

That said Charles Coghlan and John A. Glatt on the 17th day of June, 1919 in the…