Legal Document Type: Legal Motion: ANSWER AND COUNTER-MOTIONS TO PLAINTIFF’S PETITION FOR FORCIBLE DETAINER

Case Information: Case WY2025LM002787 | Status: Pending

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ANSWER AND COUNTER-MOTIONS TO PLAINTIFF’S PETITION FOR FORCIBLE DETAINER
  COMES NOW, Defendant, Micheal Lawrence Salmon, pro se, and submits this Answer and the following counter-motions in response to Plaintiff Kelly Truelove’s Petition for Forcible Detainer. Defendant respectfully asserts that this filing is without merit, legally defective, and part of an ongoing pattern of retaliatory and conspiratorial legal abuse.
  
  ANSWER TO PETITION
  Defendant denies that Plaintiff has standing to bring this eviction action. Plaintiff has repeatedly disclaimed her status as landlord and referred Defendant to a third party, Jozef Hanratty, regarding all tenancy matters.
  Defendant denies that there exists a landlord-tenant relationship between Plaintiff and Defendant. No lease or rent agreement exists between the parties.
  Defendant denies that any rent is owed to Plaintiff, and asserts that any payments were made under duress or escrowed while Plaintiff refused to recognize her alleged landlord role.
  Defendant asserts that Plaintiff’s filing is in bad faith and is part of a coordinated effort involving multiple parties, including Jozef Hanratty and Attorney Josh Garrett, to manufacture legal instability and disrupt ongoing custody litigation.
  Defendant asserts that the same claim was previously filed and dismissed on March 21, 2025, and that this renewed filing constitutes an abuse of process and retaliation.
  
  
  
  I. MOTION TO SUBMIT PRIOR EVICTION DISMISSAL TO ESTABLISH BAD FAITH AND CONSPIRACY
  On March 21, 2025, this Court dismissed a prior eviction action filed by Plaintiff against Defendant.
  That prior filing was cited by Attorney Josh Garrett in related custody proceedings as evidence of alleged instability.
  This current action, duplicative in nature and renewed without change in circumstances, constitutes retaliatory legal action in bad faith.
  Plaintiff’s denial of landlord status invalidates both the original and current filings, and suggests