Crawford v. Euclid National Bank

I respectfully dissent from the majority’s “return to the thrilling days of yesteryear.” “Recently, this court set forth in succinct clarity the three necessary elements of malicious prosecution in the per curiam opinion of Border City S. & L. Assn. v. Moan (1984), 15 Ohio St. 3d 65. We observed that in order to prove the tort of malicious prosecution, ‘[i]t will be incumbent upon appellant to establish that these lawsuits were instituted maliciously, without probable cause, and, as a general rule, were terminated in appellant’s favor.’ Id. at 66.” Kelly v. Whiting (1985), 17 Ohio St. 3d 91,…