McHale v. W.B.S. Corp.

In this case of malicious prosecution, the plaintiff Brian McHale recovered $5000 in damages from the defendants W.B.S. Corporation and Bobert Sebastio.1 After having unsuccessfully moved the trial court to set aside the verdict of the jury, the defendants have taken the present appeal in which they claim error in the court’s charge to the jury.2

*446The evidence adduced at the trial established the following facts. The plaintiff Brian MeHale was an employee of the defendant W.B.S. Corporation in the early part of the fall of 1977. His immediate supervisor was the general foreman, the defendant…