The substantive issue in this case is whether appellant's petition stated facts which, if taken as true, stated the elements of a cause of action for malicious prosecution. A procedural issue, raised by the Court of Appeals, sua sponte, involves a question of the timeliness of the appeal based on when a final appealable order occurred.
Because the Court of Appeals incorrectly treated the procedural...
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