Van Hunter v. Beckley Newspapers Corp.

Fax, Judge :

This is an action of trespass on the case, instituted in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County by Van Hunter against Beekley Newspapers Corporation, for its alleged malicious prosecution of a petition seeking a writ of mandamus against Hunter, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, filed in this Court on the 16th day of March, 1945, growing out of the alleged refusal of Hunter to permit the newspapers corporation to have access to certain papers in his office, alleged to be public records, in which proceeding the relief prayed for was denied, and the same dismissed.

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