Huffey v. Lea

I respectfully dissent in part from the result of the majority opinion and would affirm the district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ petition in its entirety.

I. The main issue in division II of the majority opinion involves whether plaintiff George Huffey should be able to maintain the present action for tortious interference with a bequest. For the reasons that follow, I believe he should be precluded from doing so.

As an initial matter, Huffey’s petition essentially asserts that defendants tor-tiously interfered with Huffey’s expectancy of a bequest or devise from Margaret Olson.

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