Werner v. Bowers

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Plaintiff, having been acquitted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County upon an indictment charging him with the larceny of certain household goods and claiming that the prosecution out of which such indictment grew had been instituted against him maliciously and without probable cause by the defendant, brought his action for damages in the Common Pleas and recovered a verdict of $1,000, upon which judgment was entered after .defendant’s motions for a new trial and for judgment in his favor n. o. v. had been overruled. The errors assigned by defendant in…