Peel v. Bramlett

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Ratlipp

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the sum.of $7,500 recovered by appellee against appellant in the Clark circuit court for malicious prosecution. The facts out of which the action arose are, in substance, as follows :

In the year 1938, appellant was engaged in the operation of one or more dry cleaning establishments in Lexington, Kentucky, and in the early part of that year he started a pressing and dry cleaning business in Winchester, Kentucky, and employed appellee, who lived in Winchester, as manager of the Winchester plant and placed her in…