H. S. Leyman Company v. Short

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

Elmer B. Short brought this action against the H. S. Leyman Company to recover damages for malicious prosecution, and on the trial of the case there was a verdict and judgment in his favor for $3,000.00. The defendant appeals.

Short was a young man about thirty years of age. residing in Bellevue, Kentucky, and was a traveling salesman for the Oongoleum Company, earning about $5,000.00 a year. The H. S. Leyman Company was a Ohio corporation, located at Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the business of loaning money on chattel mortgages. Short…