Case Name: Vanduzor against Linderman
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1813-01
Citations: 10 Johns. 106
Docket Number: 
Parties: Vanduzor against Linderman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 106–106

Head Matter:
Vanduzor against Linderman.
ALBANY,
Jan. 1813.
No action-lies merely ior hringingasuit, without sufficient ground. To sustain a suit for a former prosecution, it must he without cause, and ma* licious. Such a suit is not cognisable before a justice.
IN ERROR, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. Linderman sued Vandusor, before the justice, and declared against him for the loss of the service of his son, whilst defending a certain suit, brought against him by Vandusor; and for money paid by Linderman, in behalf of his son, in and about defending the same suit, &c.
There was a trial by jury, and a verdict for the plaintiff, for three dollars, on which the justice gave judgment.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
No action lies merely for bringing a suit against a person without sufficient ground. (Savil v. Roberts, 1 Salk. 13. Purton v. Honnor, 1 Bos. Sr Pull. 205.) To sustain a suit for a former prosecution, it must appear to have been without cause, and malicious: and an action for malicious prosecution is not cognisable before a justice.
Judgment reversed.