# Coverstone v. Davies

> California Supreme Court · January 25, 1952 · 38 Cal. 2d 315

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9550246

## Case

- **Full name:** WARREN COVERSTONE, a Minor, Etc., Appellant, v. L. N. DAVIES, Individually and as Deputy Sheriff, Etc., Et Al., Respondents; WILLIAM L. MOCK, a Minor, Etc., Appellant, v. L. N. DAVIES, Individually and as Deputy Sheriff, Etc., Et Al., Respondents; ROLLA D. MOCK Et Al., Appellants, v. L. N. DAVIES, Individually and as Deputy Sheriff, Etc., Et Al., Respondents
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** January 25, 1952
- **Citations:** 38 Cal. 2d 315; 239 P.2d 876; 1952 Cal. LEXIS 175
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Schauer
- **Judges:** Spence, Carter, Schauer
- **Cited by:** 131 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that there may be no cause of action for malicious prosecution against “anyone other than the person directly aggrieved”

## Opinion text

SCHAUER, J.
I concur generally in the vieAV of the law, and in the conclusion stated by Justice Carter.
Appellants’ petition for a rehearing was denied February 21, 1952. Carter, J., and Schauer, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.

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