Pulliam v. Ott

This is a damage suit for an alleged malicious prosecution. Appellee’s father, W. D. Ott, purchased a forty acre tract of land in Monroe County, at a commissioner’s sale. Thereafter, Asa Watson, Jr., transferred to appellant a 17.76 acre tract of land which was located between the land purchased by appellee’s father and the public highway. There is a thirty foot strip of land running east and west across the northwest corner on the north side of the tract purchased by appellant from Watson and connects appellant’s land with the Illinois Central Railroad right-of-way. Before the foregoing…