Coleman v. Heurich
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Motion for new trial on exceptions. The Case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hagner
This is an action for malicious prosecution and imprisonment. The declaration states, with the usual averments of evil motive, that the defendant sued out a warrant against the plaintiff on the 9th of February, 1878, upon the charge of having stolen a lot of copper pipe, and caused him to be arrested and imprisoned ; that the charge was false and groundless, and that the prosecution was dismissed and wholly ended before this suit was brought, and the plaintiff claimed $10,000 damages.
On the same day a similar declaration was filed in case No. 19,883, which was brought by William Neil, the…
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