Wilkinson v. Goodfellow-Brooks Shoe Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
At Law. On demurrer to petition.
1Opinion of the Court
FINKELNBURG, District Judge.
This is an action for malicious prosecution, the petition charging that the defendants, with malice and without probable cause, instituted and prosecuted a proceeding in involuntary bankruptcy against plaintiff; that upon a hearing of said proceeding it was adjudged and decreed that the petitioners had failed to sustain the allegations as to the alleged acts of bankruptcy; and that the proceeding wás then and there dismissed by the court, and final judgment rendered in favor of the present plaintiff, the defendant in the bankruptcy proceeding. It is further alleged…
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