Washington v. Creighton

This was a suit for damages by Florence Creighton against. Ruth Washington, on account of the malicious prosecution of a peace warrant. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and she excepted. The three special grounds of the motion for new trial are not referred to, or mentioned, or in any way insisted on. by counsel for the plaintiff in error in his brief, and must be considered as abandoned. But in passing it can be said that these grounds are entirely without merit. The evidence for the plaintiff was to the effect that…