Lavender v. Hudgens

English, Ch. J.:

This was an.action for malicious prosecution commenced in the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, by William Hudgens against William D. Lavender and Zenas L. Wise.

The complaint alleges, in substance, that defendants falsely and maliciously and without any reasonable or probable cause whatever, charged the plaintiff before a justice of the peace with having feloniously passed a five dollar counterfeit bill in imitation of the currency of the United States, and caused the justice to issue a warrant for his arrest, and cause him to be arrested and taken before the justice and…