Steele v. Rauchfuss

A demurrer upon the ground of insufficiency has been interposed by the defendant Alfred Rauchfuss to the second cause of action set forth in the complaint, which sets up a cause of action for false imprisonment. The plaintiff has moved for judgment on the pleadings. The complaint, among other things, alleges that the defendants made affidavits and gave testimony before a magistrate which resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff, but that the affidavits and testimony failed to prove the crime of petit larceny, which was the charge -upon which the arrest was made, and were…