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  "name": "John J. Shea, Appellee, v. Paul J. Morand, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Shea v. Morand",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,379",
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    "parties": [
      "John J. Shea, Appellee, v. Paul J. Morand, Appellant."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Thomas E. Rooney and Ferdinand Goss, for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "John J. Shea, Appellee, v. Paul J. Morand, Appellant.\nGen. No. 19,379.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Chables H. Bowles, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.\nReversed with finding of facts.\nOpinion filed December 31, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John J. Shea against Paul J. Morand for malicious prosecution. To reverse a judgment in favor of plaintiff for five hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nDefendant had procured the arrest of plaintiff on a charge of embezzlement, and on a hearing before a justice of the peace plaintiff was discharged.\nThe charge of embezzlement was based on the claim that plaintiff, while an agent of defendant, had collected money belonging to defendant and had appropriated it to his use. The undisputed facts were that before the complaint was made on which the warrant for the arrest of plaintiff was issued, defendant went to his regular' attorney, who for years had transacted for him such business as required the services of an attorney, and fairly and fully submitted to him all the facts within his knowledge concerning the charge that was eventually lodged against plaintiff. On the following day the attorney went to the office of defendant and examined the books of defendant pertaining to the matter and talked with the bookkeeper and the cashier and again talked with defendant, going over the facts with each separately. The attorney then advised that a demand be made on plaintiff for the money, which was done, with the result that plaintiff refused to turn it over. The attorney then advised defendant that plaintiff was guilty of the crime of embezzlement and advised him to \u2018 \u2018 swear out a warrant. \u2019 \u2019 Acting on this advice, the complaint on which the warrant in question was issued was made.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Malicious prosecution, \u00a7 75 \u2014when evidence shows defendant did not act without probable cause. In an action for malicious prosecution, the course pursued hy defendant in having plaintiff arrested for embezzlement, as shown hy the uncontradicted evidence, held to successfully rebut any presumption of malice, and to conclusively establish the fact that defendant did not act without probable cause.\n2. Malicious prosecution, \u00a7 13*\u2014when person acting on advice of counsel not liable. Where a prosecuting witness presents all the facts within his knowledge, or that he could have ascertained by reasonable diligence, fairly and without reserve to a State\u2019s Attorney or some other lawyer of re'cognized ability and good standing, and in good faith acts on his advice, he cannot he held responsible in an action for malicious prosecution.\nThomas E. Rooney and Ferdinand Goss, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and ' section number."
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