Kring v. University of Pittsburgh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in an action for wrongful use of civil proceedings the relevant transaction or occurrence occurred where the prior, allegedly wrongful case was brought and tried
• explaining that the existence of one element of the lawsuit in a county is not sufficient to create venue in a claim for wrongful use of civil proceedings
• stating that a \transaction or occurrence\ for purposes of venue requires more than just some part of the transaction
• concluding that the presumption in favor of a plaintiff’s choice of forum has no application where the trial court was faced not with a question of forum non conveniens, but with the question of whether venue was or was not proper in a particular county
• finding that, a cause of action for wrongful use of civil process arose in the county where the action was terminated and, therefore, venue was proper in the county were the termination of the underlying action occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).