Estate of Will

How courts have described this case

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

• filing for attachment of real property in order to prevent the owner’s sale' of the property to a third party
• allowing an abuse of process claim where an “attachment was made for the ostensible purpose of collecting a commission,” but a jury could find that the real object was to prevent the conveyance of the property to another and to secure it for the party suing for the commission
• allowing an abuse of process claim where an “attachment was made for the ostensible purpose of collecting a commission,” but a jury could find that the real object was to prevent the conveyance of the property to another and to secure it for the party suing for the commission
• “It is settled that in an action for malicious prosecution damages may be received for injury to business, reputation and feelings”
• compensation for “injury to business, reputation and feelings” and “all such damages as are the natural and probable consequences of the action complained of” available for abuse of process
• damages may be awarded for injury to “feelings” in abuse of process claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).