Zahorsky v. Griffin, Dysart, Taylor, Penner & Lay, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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• defining the degrees of “malice” necessary to find liability and award punitive damages in a malicious prosecution action arising from a civil proceeding
• “[T]he proof of all essential elements of malicious prosecution, includ ing want of probable cause, must be strict and clear.”
• “When probable cause exists, the issue of malice becomes irrelevant because even if malice is clearly shown, the action for malicious prosecution must fail.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).