Horvat v. Opas

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Plaintiff brought an action against defendant to recover damages for malicious prosecution and false arrest in that defendant filed an information in the Municipal court of Chicago charging plaintiff with embezzling $15 of defendant’s money and that upon trial of the case in the Municipal court defendant was found not guilty and discharged. There was a jury trial and a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for $5,000. Afterward the court required a remittitur of $3,000, judgment was entered on the verdict for $2,000 and defendant appeals.

The record discloses that defendant was in the business of…