Zamora v. Creamland Dairies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendants had not procured prosecution given district attorney’s statement that “the decision [to prosecute] was made solely by the district attorney’s office, without any encouragement, recommendation, direction, or pressure of any kind from the defendants”
• precluding liability where citizen gives honest, even if mistaken, information about crime
• precluding liability where citizen gives honest, even if mistaken, information about crime
• plaintiff failed to state cause of action for abuse of process where pleadings did not allege improper acts in the use of the process
• citizens should not be civilly liable for malicious prosecution because they provided honest, although mistaken or incomplete, information to district attorney, who instituted criminal prosecution
• “A citizen, without fear of liability, may report information to the authorities upon mere suspicion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).