SCHNABEL v. TAFT BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.

No. KCD 27310.

525 S.W.2d 819 (1975)

David H. SCHNABEL, Appellant, v. TAFT BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., a corporation, et al., Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

Rehearing Denied August 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Von Erdmannsdorff, Von Erdmannsdorff & Kuhlman, Howard F. Sachs, Donald W. Giffin, Kansas City, for respondent David J. Madison.

Reed 0. Gentry, Rogers, Field, Gentry, Benjamin & Robertson, Kansas City, for respondent Willard.

John M. Kilroy, Richard W. Noble, Kansas City, for respondents Taft Broadcasting Company, Inc. and McClay; Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, of counsel.

Howard F. Sachs, Donald W. Giffin, Kansas City, for respondents Wormington and Bolton and additional attorneys for respondents Taft Broadcasting Company, Inc. and McClay.

Before WASSERSTROM, P. J., and SHANGLER and DIXON, JJ.


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...

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