Savell, Williams, Cox & Angel v. Coddington

Banke, Chief Judge.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in refusing to grant summary judgment to the defendants in an action by the plaintiff, Dr. Coddington, to recover damages for malicious use of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress and legal malpractice. The defendants are a law firm, its individual members, and a client who had been represented by the firm in a previous medical malpractice action in which Dr. Coddington and two other doctors were named as defendants. The earlier suit was originally filed in the Superior Court of…