Widmeyer v. Felton

(orally). In this case the plaintiff claims that defendant put the law in motion against him on a criminal charge, and afterwards followed up the prosecution of the charge until the plaintiff was acquitted on trial before a jury, and that the proceeding against him was malicious and without reasonable or probable cause. The evidence of the plaintiff has been submitted, and the defendant, demurring to it, asks that the jury be instructed to return a verdict for him upon the ground that, assuming the evidence to be true, it fails to show a want of reasonable and probable cause for the…