Klotz v. Alexander

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment on a jury’s verdict in an action for malicious prosecution of a criminal proceeding, said latter proceeding having terminated in a dismissal of the charges after presentation of the People’s case. Previously, upon motion for new trial and consistent with a condition imposed by the court, plaintiff consented to a reduction of the judgment to the sum of $10,000; the motion for new trial was thereupon denied.

The bizarre events in which the criminal prosecution had its genesis are of such a nature that we relate only those details which will furnish the…