Louisville N. R. Co. v. Sharp

Opinion op the Coubt by

Judge Fulton

— Reversing.

The appellants, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, Fred W. Ball and A. H. Henderson, are appealing from a judgment for $3,000 rendered against them in behalf of the appellee, C. O. Sharp, in an action for malicious prosecution.

Ball and Henderson, employed as police officers by ■the Company, received what they regarded as reliable information that appellee, Sharp, also an employee of the Company, and whom Ball and Henderson did not know, had on his premises certain tools which had been •stolen from the Company. Having communicated this fact…