Floyd v. Skillern
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Guy Fulk, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Plaintiff, in March, 1915, brought this suit for damages against the defendant for slander and malicious prosecution, alleging the facts constituting his cause of action land that there was no probable cause for the prosecution.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Second Division; Guy Fulk, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Plaintiff, in March, 1915, brought this suit for damages against the defendant for slander and malicious prosecution, alleging the facts constituting his cause of action land that there was no probable cause for the prosecution. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss, alleging that the Complaint set out substantially the same cause of action as in the first complaint of June 3, 1914, and that said first complaint and cause of action was dismissed for want of prosecution on the calling thereof for trial…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). Our statutes provide, section 6167 Kirby’s Digest: “An action may be dismissed without prejudice to a future action, * * *.
“Second, by the court where the plaintiff fails to appear on the trial” and where 'an action shall be commenced within the time “and the plaintiff therein suffer a nonsuit * * * such plaintiff may commence a new action within one year after such nonsuit suffered,” etc. Section 5083, Kirby’s Digest.
In Hallum v. Dickinson, 47 Ark. 120, this court held in effect that a nonsuit whether voluntary or involuntary is not a judgment upon the…
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