Schwarze v. May Department Stores

HARRY A. HALL, Special Judge.

This is an action for malicious prosecution of a civil action wherein plaintiffs had judgment for $250 actual damages and $10,-000 punitive damages against defendant May Department Stores, d/b/a Famous-Barr Company, from which judgment the defendant has appealed.

The suit is based upon the filing of a second suit on an account owed by the plaintiffs to defendant, after plaintiffs had paid the account in full. Plaintiffs had a charge account with the May Department Stores, which had grown to an indebtedness of $169 over a nine-month period during which plaintiffs…