Morgan v. Duffy

This is an action for malicious prosecution. The case was tried before the Judge and a jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $500, and defendant has appealed and assigned errors.

Morgan was arrested upon a Justice’s warrant charging him with having obtained goods under false pretenses. He was placed in jail about five o’clock one evening, and released about ten o’clock the next morning. The declaration alleged that the prosecution of plaintiff was finally ended January 3, 1893, and the summons in this case was issued December 29, 1893. The defendant plead the statute of…