Schnabel v. Taft Broadcasting Company, Inc.

SHANGLER, Judge.

The plaintiff David H. Schnabel brought a petition for actual and punitive damages, framed in two counts, one for champerty and the other for malicious prosecution of a libel action in the courts of Kansas. The defendants moved the dismissal of both counts or for summary judgment. The trial court sustained the motion to dismiss both counts as to all defendants on the asserted ground that both counts failed to state claims for relief and that any claim based upon allegations of malicious prosecution were barred by the one year Kansas statute of limitations, K.S.A. § 60-514,…