Sparling v. Conway

This is an action for malicious prosecution. The respondent had the appellant arrested upon an information charging him with the larceny of certain paints. Being acquitted upon the trial, the appellant brought this suit; and in the court below, it appeared that the appellant had made a contract with the respondent by which the latter was to do painting upon the house of one Harney; that the respondent, being ill, was unable to do it; that Harney, being unwilling to wait, insisted that the appellant should allow one Clawson to do the work; that the appellant told Clawson that the respondent’s…