Ripley v. Bank of Skidmore

Plaintiffs’ petition for malicious prosecution carried on by a series of successive civil proceedings was dismissed for the reason it failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, and they have appealed.

This case grows out of a persistent effort on the part of the Bank of Skidmore to collect an alleged claim on a note by a series of proceedings ultimately directed against plaintiffs’ eighty-acre farm. The petition is too long to be set out. It recounts each of the suits in the series, and charges the defendants with a design or scheme to use them maliciously and without probable…