Freides v. Sani-Mode Manufacturing Co.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ENGLISH

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is taken from a judgment awarding $25,000 in damages for malicious prosecution, against the individual defendant, Manny Stern, and the corporate defendant of which he was president and principal shareholder, Sani-Mode Manufacturing Company.1 Plaintiff alleged that Stern and SaniMode (by Stern) appeared before a grand jury on June 24, 1948 and falsely, maliciously and without probable cause charged plaintiff with “unlawfully, feloniously and fraudulently taking and converting to his own use,” with the intent to steal,…