Securities Investment Co. v. Bennett

Bell, Presiding Judge.

An action for malicious use of civil process is an action for injury to the person, rather than one for injury to the reputation, and therefore is not barred under Code Ann. § 3-1004 until two years after the cause of action accrues. McCullough v. Atlantic Refining Co., 50 Ga. App. 237, 238 (177 SE 601); Davison-Paxon Co. v. Norton, 69 Ga. App. 77, 80 (24 SE2d 723). The cause of action does not accrue, and the statute does not begin to run, until the action on which the process issued has been finally terminated in favor of the defendant. See Printup Bros. & Co. v.…