Neeson v. Lake View Dairy Co.

Mr. Justice Matchett delivered

the opinion of the court.

In an action on the case for malicious prosecution brought by Neeson against Siegfried Weiss and the Lake View Dairy Company and upon trial by jury, there was a verdict for plaintiff with damages assessed at $1,000. The court, overruling a motion for a new trial, entered judgment on the verdict, from which the dairy company alone prosecutes this appeal.

There was evidence tending to show that in August, 1933, Neeson, a native of Assyria and well and favorably known in the Assyrian community in Chicago, applied to the dairy company for…