Ritterbusch v. Holt

How courts have described this case

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• explaining the petition alleged the defendant offered to withdraw a criminal complaint if a collateral claim was paid
• causing criminal charges to be filed to force payment of a collateral claim
• finding improper use of process where individual filed a criminal complaint for malicious damage of a car against another person in municipal court and offered to withdraw the criminal complaint if the other person would pay an alleged claim for damage to the car
• plaintiff was “caused shame, embarrassment, humiliation and mental distress as well as harm to his reputation”
• plaintiff was “caused shame, embarrassment, humiliation and mental distress as well as harm to his reputation”
• plaintiff in abuse-of-process claim averred defendant offered to withdraw his prior criminal complaint in exchange for payment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).