Brough v. Foley

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This matter comes before the Supreme Court for a second time after having been remanded to the Superior Court in Brough v. Foley, 525 A.2d 919 (R.I.1987). Before us today is the appeal of the defendant, Linda Foley, from a Superior Court order dismissing her counterclaim of abuse of process and granting the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment in regard to her counterclaims of slander of title and malicious use of process. The facts relevant to this appeal are as follows.

On February 17, 1971, Jeanette S. Nathans, now deceased, conveyed a certain parcel of real…