 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 668 pages
...Held, that the attorney was still bound to perform his engagement. Hellings v. Jones, E. 6 G. 4. 360 8. An action cannot be maintained jointly by two plaintiffs,...of special damage, the false imprisonment of both, as well as the expenses incurred by them: — The Court ordered the judgment to be arrested — But,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty - Forms (Law) - 1837 - 860 pages
...those instances there is an entirety of interest, or a joint damage resulting from the tort. Where an action was brought, and a verdict obtained by two plaintiffs against a defendant for a malicious nrrest, and the declaration alleged as a special damage, not only a joint expense incurred, but also... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - Civil procedure - 1845 - 680 pages
...of both, or the husband may sue alone.2 6 Although a joint action cannot, in general, be maintained, where the wrong done to one, is no wrong done to the other; yet, for expenses jointly incurred by two persons, in procuring their liberation from a malicious arrest... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Forms (Law) - 1851 - 900 pages
...these instances there is an entirety of interest, or a joint damage resulting from the tort. Where an action was brought, and a verdict obtained by two...plaintiffs against a defendant for a malicious arrest, and the declaration alleged as a special damage, not only a joint expense incurred, 'but also the false... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1856 - 976 pages
...of qui tam actions, on statutes merely penal, in which that cannot be done ; 10 Price, 9. So, where an action was brought, and a verdict obtained by two...of special damage, the false imprisonment of both, as well as the expenses incurred by them, though the action could not have been maintained in respect... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Parties to actions - 1870 - 582 pages
...one action against him for speaking these words, but each of them must bring a separate action ; for the wrong done to one is no wrong done to the other (.$). When several owners of mills brought an action for Separate not grinding corn thereat, it was... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1858 - 804 pages
...that where two have a joint interest, they may join in the same action ; but that they cannot do so where the wrong done to one is no wrong done to the other, as in the case of false imprisonment or assault and battery. Best, CJ 10 JB Moore 446. Thus two persons... | |
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Where, therefore, an action was brought, and a verdict obtained, by two plaintiffs against a defendant, for a malicious arrest, the declaration alleging, by way of special damage, the false imprisonment of both... 
