Eggleston v. Ellis

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

Lance Eggleston, a former instructor of South Central Career College in Little Rock, sued the college and its president, Fred Ellis, for malicious prosecution. A jury awarded Eggleston $80,000 damages. The trial judge set aside the verdict because Ellis filed criminal charges on the advice of his counsel and a deputy prosecuting attorney. The trial judge was wrong in finding that this issue was undisputed.

On appeal from a judgment n.o.v., we review the evidence with all reasonable inferences deduced therefrom in favor of the party obtaining the original judgment, in…