Rossiter v. Minnesota Bradner-Smith Paper Co.

Dickinson, J.1

The complaint demurred to sets forth, as a cause of action, the suing out and the levy of a writ of attachment against the plaintiffs’ property, maliciously and without probable cause. It also embraces a cause of action for the abuse of such legal process, in that, while levying upon certain personal property under the writ, the defendants, conspiring to injure the plaintiffs and destroy their business, unnecessarily caused other property of the plaintiffs, which was by law exempt from levy, to be locked up, and the plaintiffs to be excluded from their place of business. So far…