Cole v. Curtis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was commenced in the district court for Ramsey county against John Curtis and Edgar Nash, partners as Curtis & Nash, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution. Judgment was recovered by the plaintiff in that court, and the defendants appeal. A very full statement of the case appears in the opinion of the court.
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This action was commenced in the district court for Ramsey county against John Curtis and Edgar Nash, partners as Curtis & Nash, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution. Judgment was recovered by the plaintiff in that court, and the defendants appeal. A very full statement of the case appears in the opinion of the court. An allusion, however, is made therein to tbe sixth, ninth and tenth instructions given by the court at the trial, at the instance of the plaintiff, and excepted to by the defendants, which do not appear. These instructions are as follows, to wit: YI. That to…
1Opinion of the Court
*186 By the Court
McMillan, J.
This action is brought against the defendants for a malicious prosecution and arrest of the plaintiff upon the charge of larceny.
The complaint alleges the partnership of the defendants, and in due form alleges that on the 23d of February, 1869, the defendant John Curtis, acting for the firm, and with the actual knowledge and consent of Nash, the other partner, maliciously, and without probable cause, made complaint before the city justice of the city of St. Paul, charging the plaintiff with the larceny of certain personal property of the firm, described in the…
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