Swicegood v. Lott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff could recover damages for injury to reputation from arrest in abuse-of-process case, even though probable cause was undisputed
• holding that although the appellant claimed to have made a motion and that it was denied by the circuit court, the record did not contain such a motion; therefore, the issue was not preserved for review
• stating that “[a]ctual malice . . . refers to common law actual malice, and has been defined by situations where ‘defendant was actuated by ill will in what he did, with the design to causelessly and wantonly injure the plaintiff’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).