Johnson v. Land Title Bank & Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Appellant brought suit against the two appellee banks for maliciously conspiring to injure his credit and business reputation by filing against him unsuccessfully an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. Appellant was nonsuited and the court below refused to take it off. This appeal followed. The nonsuit was entered because the court believed that appellant failed to prove want of probable cause for the filing of the aggrieving petition. It is conceded by appellant that there was no proof of conspiracy.

In Mayer v. Walter, 64 Pa. 283, this Court, in an opinion by…