Legal Opinion
Sparkman v. Consol Energy, Inc.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided April 18, 2019No. 2017-SC-000541-DGPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE VANMETER
*570For a party to be liable for tortiously interfering with a contractual relationship, said party must intentionally and improperly interfere with another's existing or prospective contractual relation. The issue before this Court today is whether a parent company may be held liable for tortious interference with a contractual relationship between its wholly-owned subsidiary and a third party. By following our adherence to the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1979) on this issue, we hold that a parent company has a qualified privilege to interfere with the…
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