Irons v. American Railway Express Co.

This is an action for malicious prosecution. The petition is in two counts. The first count is based on the original arrest and prosecution of plaintiff before a justice of the peace in Stoddard County on the preliminary hearing, charging burglary of an express office, and the second count is based on a subsequent prosecution in the circuit court for the same offense after his discharge by the justice. The cause was, on change of venue, sent from Butler to Mississippi County, and there tried. The jury returned a verdict for five thousand dollars actual and ten thousand dollars punitive…