Jenner v. Carson

The complaint of Bennett Carson charged that Leopold A. Jenner, Luke G. Butterfield and Mary L. Barr wrongfully, maliciously, and without probable cause, instituted a criminal prosecution against the plaintiff before a justice of the peace of Marion county, by wrongfully, maliciously, and without probable cause, charging him in an affidavit which the defendant Jenner signed, at the instigation of his co-defendants, with the larceny of a saw-handle of the value of twenty-five cents, and a certain saw-log, of the value of five dollars, the property of Mary L. Barr.

The complaint charges that the…