RYLAND v. LAW FIRM OF TAYLOR, PORTER, BROOKS & PHILLIPS

No. 85 CA 0848.

496 So.2d 536 (1986)

Rhett R. RYLAND v. The LAW FIRM OF TAYLOR, PORTER, BROOKS, AND PHILLIPS, Eugene R. Groves, Frederick Tulley and Gulf States Utilities Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied December 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rhett R. Ryland, and B. Dexter Ryland, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant Rhett R. Ryland.

W. Luther Wilson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee The Law Firm, et al.

Before SAVOIE, CRAIN and JOHN S. COVINGTON, JJ.


CRAIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Rhett R. Ryland, brought an action for malicious prosecution arising out of a disputed utility bill. Defendants are Gulf States Utilities, the law firm that represented GSU in the law suit to collect the disputed bill, Taylor, Porter, Brooks, and Phillips, and the two attorneys at Taylor, Porter that actually handled the disputed utility bill, Eugene R. Groves and Frederick Tulley. After trial on the merits, a jury found that GSU had instituted...

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