Pace v. Brodie-National, Inc.

This is an action for damages for malicious prosecution. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his action with prejudice, entered after the trial court had sustained a challenge to the legal sufficiency of plaintiff’s evidence.

Plaintiff was the owner of the Hub Cafe in Moses Lake. Fire severely damaged the cafe, and it was closed.

Defendant, Brodie-National, Inc., a corporation, foreclosed a chattel mortgage on the cafe fixtures and purchased them at a foreclosure sale April 24, 1956. The fixtures were left upon the premises.

September 5, 1956, a vice president of defendant corporation…