Potter v. Utah Driv-Ur-Self System, Inc.

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

From a jury verdict and judgment for plaintiff in an action for malicious prosecution defendants appeal.

The difficulty here involved arose out of the plaintiff’s rental of a 1958 Chevrolet automobile from the defendant, Utah Driv-Ur-Self System. He rented the car on February 2, 1959, under a written agreement to return it the same day. It was not in fact returned until February 10, after a criminal complaint and warrant had been issued against him. Meanwhile the individual defendant, V. H. Anderson, the defendant company’s rental manager who acted for it in connection…