Wells v. Orthwein

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• pleadings that “appellants knew they had no justiciable claim against [the opposing party] when they filed their lawsuit, do not allege a cause of action for abuse of process; they sound more as a pleading in malicious commencement of a civil suit”
• “If the action is confined to its regular and legitimate function ... there is no abuse even if the plaintiff had an ulterior motive in bringing the action, or if he knowingly brought suit upon an unfounded claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).