Tanner-Brice Co. v. Barrs

1. The court did not err in allowing the amendments to the petition, or in overruling the demurrers to the petition as amended.

2. “In actions for malicious prosecution, the question is, not whether the plaintiff was guilty, but whether the defendant had reasonable came to so believe — whether the circumstances were such as to create in the mind of the defendant a reasonable belief that there was probable cause for the prosecution. Johnson v. Miller, 63 Iowa, 529. Probable cause is defined to be the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind,…