Monroe v. Sigler

Marshall, Chief Justice.

Sigler brought suit against the Monroes for malicious prosecution. The trial court denied the Monroes’ motion for summary judgment. The Court of Appeals granted their interlocutory appeal, then dismissed it as improvidently granted. We granted certiorari to consider whether a judicial determination of probable cause made in the course of a criminal prosecution can establish, as a matter of law and for purposes of summary judgment, the existence of probable cause in a civil action for malicious prosecution.

1. “The overriding question in actions for malicious prosecution…