Myers v. Clark

Clark, Judge.

Plaintiff, a former tenant of defendant landlord, sought recovery of actual and punitive damages for "malicious use and/or abuse of civil process” (quoting from the complaint). She alleges "wrongful dispossesion” from premises under a dispossessory affidávit and distraint of her possessions under a warrant alleging that she "was in fqct $200 behind in her rent” when she was not in arrears of rent on the date defendant landlord had sworn out dispossessory and distress warrants. There is no allegation as to the result of these former suits, nor is there an averment that the…