Bullock

This is an appeal from a judgment against the appellant entered in this action, awarding plaintiff the sum of $500, together with his costs and disbursements amounting to the sum of $233.95. The case was tried by a jury. It appears that on the fourth day of April; 1929, the defendant, the appellant here, swore to a criminal complaint and caused the same to be filed in the Justice’s Court of Seal Beach Township, in the County of Orange, State of California, charging the respondent with the crime of malicious mischief in that he did wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously mar, deface and carry away portions of a certain residence or dwelling-house, the same being the property of another person. The respondent was arrested and arraigned on said complaint and upon a plea of “not guilty” was tried by a jury and found to be not guilty.

The respondent charges in his complaint before us that defendant, in making said charges and prosecuting the arrest of plaintiff, did so maliciously and without probable cause and that by reason of said charges and his subsequent arrest thereon, plaintiff has been injured in his good name and reputation and credit in the community in which he lives and that…