(Download) "Byers v. Ward" by Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Byers v. Ward
- Author : Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 13, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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The three appeals are by a father and his two sons (plaintiffs) from a judgment by the court below sustaining preliminary objections to the complaint and amendment in trespass for false arrest, in a criminal proceeding instituted by a husband and wife (defendants). The grand jury returned a true bill. Upon trial the defendants (plaintiffs herein) were acquitted and the costs were imposed on the prosecutors (defendants herein). The court below, as matter of law, decided that there existed probable cause for the criminal prosecution. It reached this conclusion solely upon the ground that the grand jury had returned a true bill. In entering the judgment sustaining the preliminary objections of defendants to plaintiffs complaint, the court stated that its decision was based "... alone on the return of the Grand Jury." The appeals followed.