Volcjak v. Washington County Hospital Ass'n

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• holding that where no wrongful conduct by the defendant was alleged, i.e. a breach accompanied by violence, intimidation, defamation, fraud, or other tortious conduct, other than the breach of its contractual obligation under its bylaws, no claim for tor-tious interference can lie
• explaining that actions must be “without right or justifiable cause on the part of the defendants (which constitutes malice)”
• absence of allegation of aggravation in the form violence, intimidation, defamation, or fraud, or that defendant sought to appropriate business from third party contracting with plaintiff was fatal to claim

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