MacK v. First Security Bank of Chicago

PRESIDING JUSTICE McMORROW

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Voy E. Mack (Mack) was charged with and tried for forgery and theft in criminal proceedings which were instituted on the complaint of defendant First Security Bank of Chicago (bank). Upon her acquittal of the criminal charges, she brought this action against defendant bank for malicious prosecution. At the close of Mack’s case in the malicious prosecution action, the trial court found that Mack had failed to present any evidence of malice in connection with the bank’s institution of the criminal proceedings, and the trial…