Templeton Feed & Grain v. Ralston Purina Co

In Templeton Feed & Grain v. Ralston Purina Co., 69 Cal. 2d 461, 72 Cal. Rptr. 344, 446 P.2d 152, 155 (Cal. 1968), the court affirmed an abuse of process judgment where the defendant used legal process to seize turkeys at the height of the Thanksgiving season in order to force payment of a debt. The payment demands communicated by the defendant immediately after the seizure of the turkeys served as the "wilful act." The payment demands were not integral to the proceeding that resulted in the seizure of the turkeys, but they collaborated the perverse character of those proceedings.