Norvell v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

David L. Norvell brought two actions at law to recover damages for malicious prosecutions instituted by Safeway and its District Manager, George S. King, respectively. The actions were consolidated, and removed to Carroll County for trial. At the close of the plaintiff’s case the court granted prayers for directed verdicts. From judgments on those verdicts the appeal comes here.

On February 25, 1953, the appellant was the manager of a Safeway store in Bethesda, Maryland. The appellant’s immediate superior was the appellee, King, who had replaced a former District Manager about two weeks…