Johnston v. Meaghr
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Second district court, Box Elder county. Hon. C. H. Hart, Judge. Action by Annie Johnston and another against William Meaghr and others for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment.. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal.
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Appeal from the Second district court, Box Elder county. Hon. C. H. Hart, Judge. Action by Annie Johnston and another against William Meaghr and others for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment.. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. On June 25, 1894, the respondent, William H. Bowe, was the receiver of the Bear Lake & Biver Irrigation & Canal Company, and on that day the respondent Meaghr was his foreman, in charge of a gang of men and teams engaged in constructing a lateral canal, near Point Lookout, in Box Elder county, upon and through some land which the appellants claimed…
1Opinion of the Court
Zane, C. J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for the alleged malicious prosecution of the plaintiff Annie Johnston. The other defendant is her husband. They allege in their complaint that William H. Eowe was receiver of the Bear Lake & Bear River Irrigation & Canal Company, and that he and the other defendants on June 28,1894, at the county of Box Elder, in the state of Utah, maliciously and without probable cause, instituted a prosecution before a justice of the peace against the plaintiff Annie Johnston; that they falsely alleged in their complaint that she had threatened to…
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