STORY, Circuit Justice. It was most clearly established at the trial, that the defendant had no just cause of action to support the arrest, on which the present suit is founded. The award, on the setting aside of which the defendant could alone pretend to maintain his action, was at that time in litigation in another suit, and its validity has since been supported by the supreme court of Massachusetts against every objection; a…
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