GLADDING CHEVROLET v. FOWLER

[No. 209, September Term, 1971.]

264 Md. 499 (1972)

287 A.2d 280

GLADDING CHEVROLET, INC. v. FOWLER

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 15, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips L. Goldsborough, III, with whom were Smith, Somerville & Case and Nathaniel W. Hopper on the brief, for appellant.

Moses Cohen, with whom was Robert E. McManus on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.


SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We shall here set aside a judgment for malicious prosecution in the amount of $15,000.1 We conclude that because appellant, Gladding Chevrolet, Inc. (Gladding Chevrolet), relied upon the advice of counsel in instituting criminal proceedings against appellee, James Kenneth Fowler (Fowler), after first relating all material facts to counsel, Fowler has failed to establish a lack of probable...

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