Mannex Corp. v. Bruns

Plaintiff brought this action for intentional interference with economic relations (HER) and defamation.1 The trial court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that, with respect to each claim, plaintiff had not provided sufficient evidence to create a jury question as to an essential element: with respect to HER, that defendant was a “third party” who interfered with one of plaintiffs economic relationships; and with respect to defamation, that defendant’s defamatory statements were the legal cause of injury to plaintiff. Plaintiff appeals from the subsequently…