Frank Parmelee Co. v. Griffin

Appellant contends that the verdict and judgment are against the weight of the evidence, that the burden rested on the plaintiff to establish by a clear preponderance of evidence, first, a want of probable cause for procuring the warrant and causing the arrest of the plaintiff upon the charge of larceny, and second, that the defendant was actuated by malice. It is insisted plaintiff has failed to do either of these things and that the judgment cannot be sustained.

There is no douht that where as in Ross v. Innis, 35 Ill., 487-511, a powerful house made an “infamous charge which they knew was…