UNION OIL OF CALIFORNIA, AMSCO DIV. v. WATSON

No. 83-2772.

468 So.2d 349 (1985)

UNION OIL OF CALIFORNIA, AMSCO DIVISION, Appellant, v. John WATSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and Edward T. O'Donnell and Aubrey V. Kendall and James M. McCann, Miami, Adkins & Hardy, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Joe Unger, Proenza & White, Miami, for appellee.

Before HUBBART, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

Appellant, Union Oil of California, Amsco Division ("Union Oil"), was the defendant in a suit for malicious prosecution brought by appellee John Watson.

Appellant raises nine points on appeal which contain eighteen sub-issues. One of the questions, which goes to an element of a malicious prosecution claim, is dispositive of the case: whether the first action, in which Union Oil sued Watson, terminated in Watson's favor.

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