Burshan v. NATIONAL UNION FIRE INS. COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining why a garnishment proceeding is not an action on a judgment under Florida law
• “the judgment in the first suit only estops the parties from litigating in the second suit issues which were actually adjudicated in the prior litigation”
• “The principles governing a common law action for the wrongful issuance of a garnishment writ are those common law principles applicable to actions for malicious prosecution.”
• 1987 judgment registered in 1993 and re-registered in 1998
• discussing the elements of the tort of wrongful garnishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).