Ritterbusch v. Holt

RENDLEN, Judge.

Appeal from judgment dismissing plaintiffs petition for failure to state a cause of action for abuse of process. Thus postured, allegations of the petition are taken as true and when we examine to determine whether vel non grounds for relief have been stated, the stricken pleading will be afforded its broadest intendment and all reasonable inferences favoring plaintiff are to be indulged. See Shapiro v. Columbia Union National Bank and Trust Co., 576 S.W.2d 310, 312 (Mo. banc 1978), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 831, 100 S.Ct. 60, 62 L.Ed.2d 40 (1979); Concerned Parents v.…