Langer v. Newmann
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Otter Tail county to recover $2,000 for procuring against the plaintiff an adjudication of insanity by false ■charges. The case was tried before Baxter, J., who, upon conclusion •of plaintiff’s testimony, granted a motion to dismiss the action. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
¡START, O. J-
This is an aotion in the nature of an action on the case to recover damages which the plaintiff alleged in her complaint that she sustained as a result of a conspiracy between the defendants, and their action in preferring a false charge of insanity against her in the probate court of ¿he county of Otter Tail, and securing an adjudication of insanity against her by their false representations and testimony, knowingly given, at the hearing on such charge, which resulted in her being committed to the hospital for the insane, to her damage in the sum of $2,000. The answer denied the…
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