Meraz v. Valencia

OPINION OP THE COURT

PARKER, J.

Plaintiff in error, Santiago Meraz, brought this action below for malicious prosecution against the National Life Insurance Company, E. T. Chase, and Florentino'Valencia. At .the close of plaintiff’s case, on motion, a verdict was instructed for defendants in error, and from the judgment entered thereon this writ of error is sued out.

Plaintiff, oh November 3, 1917, at Pecos, in San Miguel county, gave his check, drawn on the First National Bank of Albuquerque, to Florentino Valencia, for $970, in payment for certain sheep purchased by plaintiff. Valencia kept the…