O'CONNELL v. Bank of Boston

The plaintiff, a former teller at the Bank of Boston, appeals from an adverse judgment in her action against the bank for malicious prosecution and other torts. We begin by relating the background — a prior criminal ac tion, in which the plaintiff here was the defendant, and was found not guilty.

In her final days as a teller at the bank, the plaintiff, who had given her notice in order to take a higher paying job elsewhere, was, along with the bank, made the victim of a scheme by another employee who stole $4,800 and concealed the theft temporarily with a paper trail that pointed to the…