North Point Construction Co. v. Sagner

This is an action at law for the malicious prosecution of a civil suit. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case the trial court granted defendants’ motion for a directed verdict, and from the judgment on that verdict the plaintiff has appealed.

The appellant is a corporation formed in April, 1941, for the purpose of constructing, and then selling, thirty-six houses on a tract of land which it owned on Gough Street in Baltimore County, adjacent to the city limits. The promoter of that enterprise and the directing head of the corporation was Earl W. Powers who, with his wife, owned practically…