Rogers Co. v. Murray

(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. “The restrictions under which actions for malicious prosecution are placed, and the guarded conditions authorizing them, clearly show that they are not highly favored or much encouraged, and this is because of their tendency to promote litigation and engender strife, as well as to deter persons from coming forward to vindicate the public justice and to insist upon their private rights in the only way that the law allows.” Wilcox v. McKenzie, 75 Ga. 73; Henderson v. Francis, 75 Ga. 178.

2. The plaintiff’s case in an action for malicious prosecution is…