Struby-Estabrook Mercantile Co. v. Kyes

Action for malicious prosecution. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendant appealed.

*191The complaint was that on the 7th day of April, 1893, the defendant falsely, maliciously, unlawfully, wrongfully, and without reasonable or probable cause, commenced a criminal prosecution against the plaintiff before a justice of the peace, charging him with having committed the offense of procuring The R. G. Dun & Co. Mercantile Agency to falsely report to the defendant that the plaintiff owned certain land at Sterling, Colorado, and thereby falsely getting into his possession goods and chattels of the…