Barrett v. Spaids

This was an action on the case, in the Superior Court of Cook county, brought by Talmadge E. Spaids against Oliver W. Barrett, Charles Fargo and the American Merchants’ Union Express Company, the first named being the general agent, and the last named,, general superintendent, of that company, in the North-west, to recover damages for maliciously suing out a writ of attachment against the plaintiff.

The cause was tried on the general issue, and special pleas setting up a release, etc., and a verdict found for the plaintiff, assessing his damages at four thousand one hundred and six dollars and…