Stonor v. Rawalski

Citations

• 66 Pa. Super. 28
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 184

Syllabus

<p>Malicious prosecution — Probable cause — Malice—Case for jury.</p> <p>Where an owner of a store building .and a stock of goods rents the building to a woman and sells her the stock by bill of sale, and the tenant thereafter removes from the premises with the goods, and rent accrues which she does not pay, and the landlord has her arrested for larceny in stealing the goods, but she is discharged by the magistrate on her producing the bill of sale, and subsequently the landlord causes her arrest a second time, and she is acquitted by a jury, and it appears that the prosecutor had declared that he “intended to put her in prison before he was through with her,” a verdict and judgment for $1,000 will be sustained against him in an action by the woman for malicious prosecution.</p>