Harter v. Lewis Stores, Inc.

SIMS, Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff ¡below, sued Lewis. Stores for $30,388.50 damages, her petition averred she suffered by reason of appellee’s malicious prosecution of a civil suit against her in a magistrate’s court in Jefferson County to recover $22.43, the balance due on a contract for the purchase of goods from the store, which' contract it was alleged she had signed.

The trial court struck certain allegations from Mrs. Harter’s petition, and at the conclusion of her evidence directed a verdict for appellee. In seeking to reverse the judgment she contends the trial court erred: 1. In…