Richardson v. Rutherford

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ambiguity of general verdict based on more than one claim requires remand
• determining that abuse of process may be found in the filing of a complaint itself
• allowing a claim for abuse of process based on a request for excessive damages contained in the complaint, in light of a lack of reasonable investigation into the extent of injury, and based on excessive attachments to the complaint
• reversing trial court’s grant of j.n.o.v. on abuse of process verdict and remanding for new trial where ranch owner brought $3,000,000 lawsuit against former manager on sixty-one counts but could only establish that manager had improperly removed $3,000 worth of timber
• “The initial use of process itself may constitute the required overt act under the facts.”
• “Some definite act or threat not authorized by the process, or aimed at an objective not legitimate in the use of the process, is required [.]” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).