Breen v. Shatz

COMBS, Justice.

In an action for malicious prosecution growing out of certain criminal proceedings, the plaintiff, Nora Breen, filed an amended petition seeking additional damages on the ground that subsequent to the filing of plaintiff’s petition the defendant, Shatz, had filed a civil action against her which had been terminated in her favor in circuit court. The defendant, by appropriate pleading, stated that an appeal was pending in this court from the judgment entered in the civil action and moved that plaintiff’s amended petition be dismissed on that ground. The motion was sustained and…