To establish collateral abuse of process, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant's purpose was truly extraneous to the relief sought, not merely an inevitable consequence of obtaining that relief, and the plaintiff cannot recover costs of defending the impugned proceeding as damages for the tort.
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