Gilbert v. Rothe

This is an action by Amanda K. Gilbert, plaintiff, to recover damages resulting from the illegal acts of defendants in seizing the stock of goods in a bookstore owned and conducted by her in Lincoln, in dispossessing her, and in detaining her property five days before returning it to her. The items of damages pleaded are: Injuring and destroying stock, $1,000; destroying plaintiff’s business from October 1, 1918, to October 6, 1918, and injuring it for a year thereafter, $1,000; “mortification, humiliation, and disgrace,” $1,000; total $3,000. Defendant Lorenzo A. Simmons was the sheriff and…