President v. Green
Decision Date | 23 June 1897 |
Citation | 37 A. 642,86 Md. 161 |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Parties | PRESIDENT, ETC., OF BALTIMORE & Y. TURNPIKE ROAD v. GREEN. |
Appeal from circuit court, Harford county.
Action by Fletcher Green against the President, Managers & Company of the Baltimore & Yorktown Turnpike Road. From a judgment on verdict for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed.
Argued before McSHERRY, C. J., and BRYAN, FOWLER, BRISCOE, PAGE, and BOYD, JJ.
G. L. Van Bibber, for appellant .
S. A. Williams, for appellee.
This is a suit for false arrest and malicious prosecution, brought by the appellee, Fletcher Green, against the appellant, the President, Managers & Company of the Baltimore & Yorktown Turnpike Road, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Maryland. The declaration states that the defendant, on the 17th day of September, 1894, falsely, maliciously, and without probable cause procured or caused to be procured a warrant to be issued by Albert W. Perrie, a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for Baltimore county, under the act of 1890 (chapter 442), for the arrest of the plaintiff, charging him with defrauding the Baltimore & Yorktown Turnpike Road of tolls; that the justice of the peace required him to enter into a recognizance for his appearance at the circuit court of Baltimore county to answer the charge; that the charge was afterwards dismissed and the plaintiff discharged. It is also alleged that the charge contained in the warrant was in fact false, malicious, and without probable cause. At the trial there were two exceptions taken,— one to the admissibility of certain testimony, and the other to the refusal of the court to grant the defendant's first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh prayers. The judgment being for the plaintiff, the defendant has appealed.
There were but two witnesses examined at the trial. They were the plaintiff, Fletcher Green, and Charles E. Bowen, employe of the defendant corporation, and its toll gatherer. The material facts are: The appellant owns and operates a turnpike road which extends from Baltimore city through Towson to the Pennsylvania line. That on September 17, 1894, the plaintiff drove his wagon partly through what is known as the "Towson Gate." That Bowen, the gate keeper, came out, and said he wanted the toll, etc. The witness Bowen testified that: He further testified as to the arrest: ...
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