D'Alessandro v. Pickford

This is an action for malicious prosecution. A motion for a nonsuit was granted and the plaintiff has appealed from the judgment.

The appellant, having a written lease, operated a barber shop and beauty parlor in a building owned by the respondent. The respondent held two chattel mortgages on the equipment used in this business, which had been given by the appellant on separate occasions as security for unpaid rent and money loaned. Thereafter, on March 2, 1934, the respondent brought suit in a justice’s court for $460 for unpaid rent which had subsequently accrued. In pursuance of a writ of…