Rodgers v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing summary judgment because a question of fact existed as to whether the defendants had probable cause to initiate criminal proceedings against the plaintiff
• reversing summary judgment because a question of fact existed as to whether the defendants had probable cause to initiate criminal proceedings against the plaintiff
• permitting inference of malice to be drawn from absence of probable cause
• “[i]t is the state of mind of the one commencing the prosecution, and not the actual facts of the case or the guilt or innocence of the accused, that is at issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).