Campbell v. Myers

This is an action in damages for alleged malicious prosecution. Defendant is a resident of Green City in Sullivan county, Missouri, and is engaged in farming and in the mercantile business. He also owned and operated numerous telephone lines and switchboards in Sullivan and adjoining counties. Among others, he owned and operated a switchboard and lines at the village of Green Castle located four miles east of Green City. The Green Castle system was known as the Green Castle Telephone Company. At the time of the occurrence which resulted in the present controversy, plaintiff, who was reared in…