Gouge v. David

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Circuit Court in favor of the defendants, four in number, which was entered after the court had sustained a motion made by the defendants for a judgment of involuntary nonsuit. The action was instituted to recover damages, compensatory and punitive, for an instance of alleged malicious prosecution.

The appellant was the owner of a tavern in Silver-ton in which beer was sold and served. Defendant-respondent M. B. Hayden was the district attorney for Marion County, that being the county in which Silverton is situated. Defendant-respondent…