Geier v. Jordan

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing the tort of abuse of process from the tort of malicious prosecution
• complaint failed to state a claim for malicious abuse of process where it “alleged only a wrongful purpose” and “failed entirely to charge any act on the part of appellee by which the judicial process was perverted”
• complaint failed to state a claim for malicious abuse of process where it “alleged only a wrongful purpose” and “failed entirely to charge any act on the part of appellee by which the judicial process was perverted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).