Champlin Refining Co. v. Le Force

The defendant in error, Frank DeForee, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, brought his action and recovered judgment in the district court of Noble county against Ohamplin Refining Company, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, for malicious prosecution.

The prosecution which was the basis of the action charged the plaintiff with disposing of an oat crop on which the defendant held a chattel mortgage. The complaint in the criminal action was sworn to by one H. W. Carey, who, it was alleged in the amended petition, “was at ail times herein involved the duly appointed, qualified and…