Brunk v. Huthmacher

Judgment was rendered in the lower court in favor of appellee and against appellant for malicious prosecution in the sum of $1,000. The verdict of the jury was for the sum of $5,000, but the plaintiff entered a remittitur of $4,000 which the court required as a condition to entering its judgment. The declaration alleges that on July 28, 1908, the appellant maliciously caused the arrest, imprisonment and prosecution of appellee in Jackson county, Illinois, upon a charge of larceny, without any probable cause to believe him ’guilty.

The evidence shows that appellee is a machinist and was sent to…