Giant of Virginia, Inc. v. Pigg

These two appeals involve an action for malicious prosecution, wherein the facts, despite conflicting evidence on several material points, are relatively simple. Resolving such conflicts as there are in favor of Mrs. Raffaela D. Pigg, the testimony, so far as it is material, is as follows:

On April 3, 1964, Raffaela D. Pigg, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, her husband and children, residents of New York, were passing through Norfolk, Virginia, from Miami, Florida, to their home. They intended to visit Mrs. Pigg’s sister, who lived at Ocean View in Norfolk. Prior to the visit they drove…