Rickman v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

MR. JUSTICE FREEBOURN:

This action is one for malicious prosecution wherein plaintiff, Alice Rickman, secured verdict and judgment against the defendant, Safeway Stores, Inc., a corporation. The action was dismissed as to the defendant, Daly Bank & Trust Company of Anaconda, a corporation, on plaintiff’s motion at the close of plaintiff’s case in chief.

Plaintiff, in her complaint alleged: That the defendants, on September 29, 1948, at the city of Anaconda, in Deer Lodge county, Montana, maliciously and without probable cause, procured and caused a criminal complaint to be filed in the justice…