Paddock v. Watts

This was an action by James W. Watts against William, Benjamin F. and David E. Paddock, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution instituted by the Paddocks against the plaintiff Watts in the! Vigo Circuit Court.. I

The plaintiff charged that the defendants unlawfully, wrongfully, maliciously and without probable cause, procured an indictment to be found and returned against him by the grand jury of Vigo county, in which the plaintiff was charged with the crime of embezzlement. It was alleged that the plaintiff had been arrested and tried upon the charge so preferred, and that he…