Pritchett v. Northwestern Mutual Insurance

This is an action for malicious prosecution over the alleged stealing of certain farm crops. Plaintiff, before a jury, recovered a judgment for $500 actual damages and $2500 punitive damages from which judgment defendants have appealed.

There are fourteen assignments of error, the first of which is that the trial court erred in refusing to give defendants’ instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence offered at the close of plaintiff’s case and again at the close of the whole ease. By introducing their evidence after their demurrer at the close of plaintiff’s case had been…