Bruce v. Scully

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, Kate Bruce, filed her petition in the Kenton Circuit Court, in which she alleged that the ap-pellee, Elizabeth Scully, had made an affidavit before a justice of the peace, charging her with the offense of using abusive and insulting language in the presence of other persons with the intent to provoke an assault, and caused her to be arrested upon that charge and tried before the justice of the peace, and a jury, and that the trial resulted in an acquittal, and that said prosecution was set on foot by the appellee with malice against…