Ferguson v. Richards

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Upon a jury verdict, Floyd Richards recovered judgment in the amount of $1,750 against General Mills, Inc., and its Louisville plant manager, Charles G. Ferguson, as damages for malicious prosecution. Upon this appeal, Ferguson and his company maintain that they were entitled to a directed verdict, because the plaintiff’s evidence did not establish lack of probable cause for the prosecution, and the defendants’ evidence clearly established the existence of probable cause.

Richards, a former employe of the Louisville plant of General Mills, was arrested in Larue County…