Lantay v. McLean

HATHAWAY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Superior Court judgment entered in favor of the appellees (defendants below) and from the order denying appellants’ (plaintiffs below) motion for a new trial.

Plaintiffs filed a complaint in the Superior Court, Pima County, alleging that the defendant John McLean, acting as agent for the defendant corporation, wrongfully and maliciously caused the arrest and criminal prosecution of plaintiff George Lantay on a charge of disturbing the peace. The record shows the following sequence of events which gave rise to this lawsuit.

On September 27, 1961, George…