Burch v. Lockwood

Plaintiff brought an action against the defendant to recover damages for the malicious prosecution and false arrest of plaintiff, in that the defendant filed in the municipal court of Chicago an information charging that plaintiff stole “one stand lamp” of the value of $14, being the property of the defendant, and that upon a trial of the merits of the case in the municipal court the defendant was found not guilty and discharged. The case was tried before a judge and á jury and there was a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor for $1,275.

The record discloses that on November 7, 1923, the…