Alabama Power Co. v. Neighbors

This is a malicious prosecution action against Alabama Power Company wherein the plaintiff John Kimbro Neighbors, Jr. alleges that APCo instigated a criminal proceeding against him which resulted in his criminal indictment before the Tallapoosa grand jury on the following felony charge:

Knowingly, willfully and without the consent of the owner, entered upon the land of Alabama Power Company, Inc., a corporation, and cut and carried off timber, to-wit: pulpwood, of the value of Fifty Dollars ($50.00), the personal property of Alabama Power Company, Inc., a corporation.

Because the critical…