Legal Opinion
Clikos v. Long
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 16, 1936No. 6 Div. 743PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Justice.
Count 2, upon which, for the plaintiff, the cause was tried, seeks damages as for an abuse of process, as distinguished from the action of malicious prosecution; the chief distinction being that the former rests upon the improper use of a regularly issued process, while the latter has reference to the wrong in the issuance thereof. Brown v. Master, 104 Ala. 451, 16 So. 443; Dickerson v. Schwabacher, 177 Ala. 371, 58 So. 986, 988; McCarty v. Williams, 212 Ala. 232, 102 So. 133; Brock v. Berry, 132 Ala. 95, 31 So. 517, 90 Am.St.Rep. 896; 38 Corpus Juris, 384; 50 Corpus Juris,…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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