Watts v. Gerking

This is an action against five defendants for malicious prosecution in instituting criminal proceedings against the plaintiff, causing him to be arrested, his home to be searched, and property in his possession to be taken from him, maliciously and without probable cause, upon a charge which, it is alleged, the defendants at the time knew to be false.

The plaintiff is a reputable attorney at law, regularly admitted to practice, and resided with his wife at his home at Athena, where he had in his possession a quantity of intoxicating liquor which the complaint alleges he had acquired prior to…