Johnson v. Calado

HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals 1 which affirmed a judgment of the circuit court for Jefferson county, Arnold Schumann, circuit judge. The judgment was one of dismissal of a malicious prosecution action brought by Christa Johnson. Both the circuit court and the court of appeals held that, in Wisconsin, no claim for malicious prosecution was stated when the complaint failed to allege a distraint of, or interference with, the plaintiffs person or property as the result of an underlying action, although that underlying action was malicious and…