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WILLIAMSON v. GUENTZEL

No. C2-97-2342.

584 N.W.2d 20 (1998)

Stan WILLIAMSON d/b/a The Vacuum Doctor, Appellant. v. Mark GUENTZEL, Respondent, Scott Fetzer Company, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied November 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Sortland, Sortland Law Office, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Thomas A. Gilligan, Jr., Murnane, Conlin, White, & Brandt, P.A., St. Paul, for respondent Guentzel.

Mark G. Shroeder, Briggs & Morgan, P.A., St. Paul; and David A. Kutik, Jones, Day, Reavis, & Pogue, Cleveland, for respondent Fetzer.

Considered and decided by HARTEN, P.J., and CRIPPEN and DAVIES, JJ.

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

Appellant Stan Williamson challenges the trial court's summary judgment that dismisses his malicious prosecution action. The court held that appellant was collaterally estopped from relitigating the issue of whether respondent Scott Fetzer Company had a reasonable basis for filing an earlier suit against him in federal district court. Because the federal trial court made specific findings that the original suit was neither groundless...

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