Case Name: Wilcox vs. McKenzie
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 235
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wilcox vs. McKenzie.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 235–235

Head Matter:
Wilcox vs. McKenzie.
Case, from P -hmond. Actions. Damages. Torts. Malice. (Before Judge Simmons.)
Twiggs & Verdery, for plaintiff in error.
Foster & Lamar, for defendant.

Opinion:
Hall, J.
An action to recover damages for suing out and levying an attachment and for instituting proceedings to obtain, and serving summons of garnishment, cannot be maintained without proof of malice and want of probable cause, and in the absence of any such proof, a a nonsuit was properly awarded. Actions for criminal prosecution and civil suits require substantially the same essentials. 98 U. S., 192; 4 Barn. & Cres., 21; 2 Car. & P , 485 ; 19 Wend., 417; 2 Penn., 149; 4 Burrows, 1791; U. S. Digest, 1st Series, vol. 8, part 95, 942; 29 Ga., 64; 30 Id., 519; 63 Id., 683; 56 Id., 188; 13 Id., 260,262; 44 Id., 160, 161; Mitchell vs. Southwestern R. R. (present term). 1 Ga. Law Reporter, 70; Code, §2982, 2983, 2987.
(a) This does not conflict with the case of Juchter vs. Boehm, Bendheim & Co., 67 Ga., 534.
Judgment affirmed.