Jones v. Morris Plan Bank

*90Herman A. Jones, the plaintiff below, filed a suit by notice of motion for judgment against Morris Plan Bank of Portsmouth and G. R. Whitehurst to recover damages for alleged malicious abuse of civil process. The parties will be sometimes referred to as they appeared in the court below.

The defendants filed a plea of the statute of limitations. The plaintiff by replication averred that there should be excluded from the limitation period fourteen months during which there was pending in the Circuit Court of the city of Suffolk a suit by the same plaintiff against the same defendants on the same…