Johnson v. Horn

Plaintiff, by verdict, was awarded $100 actual and $1,000 exemplary damages against defendant in an action for malicious prosecution. Judgment in conformity with the verdict was entered. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied, and he appealed from the judgment.

The first specification of error challenges the sufficiency of the complaint, which sets forth, in substance, that the defendant maliciously and without probable cause charged the plaintiff with the theft of a horse, by complaint in the justice’s court at Hamilton, and maliciously and without probable cause caused him to be…