Foster v. Bourgeois

This suit was instituted by appellees, Mrs. Minnie Ludlow Bourgeois, joined pro forma by her husband, Albert Bourgeois, against the appellant, W. M. Foster, to recover damages for alleged malicious prosecution. The appellees alleged that on or about February 23, 1921, appellant caused a complaint to be filed in the justice court, precinct No. 1, McLennan county, Tex., charging the appellee Mrs. Minnie Ludlow Bourgeois with a felony, to wit, the offense of swindling over $50, and caused a warrant to be issued for her arrest; that appellant had himself appointed as a deputy sheriff of McLennan…