Martin v. . Houck

This action was brought to recover damages for an unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. The defendant Calvin Houck was a policeman of Granite Falls, when he was informed that the plaintiff had stolen a pair of shoes from a store while it was on fire. He and his codefendants, J. O. Deal and George Lefevers, who acted as deputies, went to the plaintiff's house, which was two miles from the town, in the night and after the plaintiff and his wife had retired, and arrested him, after searching the house at plaintiff's request, as the State's evidence tended to show. The plaintiff's wife was…