Krug v. Ward
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. This ivas an action brought by Ann E. Ward against August Krug, for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and slander. A trial ivas had. resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, of $2750 and costs. The other material facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
Plaintiff prosecuted the defendant before a justice-of the peace of Clinton county, on a charge of bastardy, swearing, on the trial, that she was an unmarried woman ; was pregnant; that the child, when born, would be a bastard, and that defendant was its father, and thereby caused him to be recognized to appear at the next- term of the proper court, to answer to the charge. The case was compromised between the parties without any further litigation, the defendant giving the plaintiff his promissory note for $300.
Some two years afterwards, Emma Krug, the wife of the defendant, at his instance,…
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