Turnage v. Kasper

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the “facts were more than sufficient” to support the jury’s finding that Defendant “instigated and procured” Plaintiffs arrest
• denial of directed verdict affirmed where there was evidence that appellant wrongfully imputed a crime to another
• “A distinction must be drawn, then, between actually instigating or procuring the institution of criminal proceedings, and merely providing information to a law enforcement official without in any way attempting to influence his judgment.”
• “A person may be held liable for malicious prosecution when he provides information to an investigating officer that he knows to be false, and in doing so unduly influences the authorities to take the complained of actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).