Legal Opinion
National City Bank, Indiana v. Shortridge
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 1997No. 33S05-9712-CV-685PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
Lawyers representing a personal injury plaintiff filed a lis pendens notice against real estate owned by the defendants. A trial court ruled they were not entitled to do so and ordered the notice removed. Counsel nevertheless pursued a second lis pendens, the existence of which caused a sale of the property to collapse. These facts make out a case for abuse of process sufficient to survive summary judgment.
I. Facts
In early 1984, a group known as 3200 North Meridian Medical borrowed money from the former Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of…
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