Gann v. Varnado

Citations

• 51 La. Ann. 370
• 25 So. 79
• 1899 La. LEXIS 411

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Two country merchants engaged In business in the same vicinity, having both furnished plantation supplies to a customer who made an insufficiency o£ cotton to pay their accounts, and one of them, having obtained possession thereof by purchase, in an honest competition, was caused to be arrested by the other on a charge of robbery, and to be incarcerated in jail, and there detained for several days, being fully aware of all the circumstances. I-XnLD: That the proceeding was taken without probable cause, and with malice inferable from the act, and the affiant is liable in damages to tne party thus arrested, as having been guilty of a malicious prosecution.</p>