Wheeler v. Nesbitt

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[w]ant of reasonable and probable cause” is an “element in the action for a malicious criminal prosecution”
• approving definition of \probable cause” as \the existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite ... belief, in a reasonable mind”
• approving a jury instruction that limited probable cause to “the offence described in the complaint and warrant”
• “To support an action for malicious prosecution the plaintiff must prove [that the prosecution] finally terminated in his acquittal.”
• “[I]t is unquestionably true that want of probable cause is evidence of malice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).