Skinner against Gunton, Lyon and Leson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1685 |
| Date | 01 January 1685 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
English Reports Citation: 84 E.R. 297
COURTS OF KINGS BENCH
See S. C. 1 Wms. Saund. 228.
70. skinner against gunton, lyon and leson. [See S. C. 1 Wms. Saund. 228.] Conspiracy. Latch, 79 & 80. In action sur case, in nature of conspiracy, for causing a plaint to be levied where there was no cause of action, and causing the plaintiff to be arrested and laid in prison, and on not-guilty pleaded, onely Gunton was found guilty; and Saunders moved in arrest of judgment on F. N. B. 114, because the writ is not generally machinantes & intendentes to grieve him, but barely a conspiracy. 2. It's not said the plaintiff was acquitted, or the defendant's then plaintiff in such action were non-suit or discontinued, sed non allooatur, for albeit where a man is accused of a crime, the Court can allow no action of conspiracy before a trial, yet this secondly is not properly conspiracy, but a malitious agreement to charge the...
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