Court Opinion

ID: 9937623
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 19:01:39.646847+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:45.639459
License: Public Domain

I concur in the Court's opinion; however, I do not believe it is necessary to hold that *Page 968 
Alabama Power Company did not initiate the prosecution. In an action for malicious prosecution the initial determination is whether the prior judicial proceeding was initiated with probable cause. Having found, as a matter of law, that under "the undisputed evidence . . . there was probable cause to believe that Plaintiff had committed a crime . . .," the Court need not have made further findings on the issue of the identity of the initiating party. The question of who
instituted the judicial proceedings is of importance only when it has first been determined that there was no probable cause and that the malicious prosecution action should proceed against an identified defendant.