Appearing pro se, Nathan Walker appeals the Dougherty County trial court’s grant of a motion to dismiss his tort complaint against his ex-wife, Courtney Walker, her attorney, William H. Gregory, and a psychologist, Lora Davis, arguing that venue was proper, that his complaint stated a cause of action against the defendants, and that fees were improperly assessed against him. We hold that venue lies against all three defendants in Dougherty County, and that although some counts of Walker’s complaint were properly dismissed, others were not. We therefore affirm in part, reverse in part, and vacate the fee award pending further proceedings. As the Supreme Court of Georgia recently affirmed,a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted should not be sustained unless 1 the allegations of the complaint disclose with certainty that the claimant would not be entitled to relief under any state of provable facts asserted in support thereof; and 2 the movant establishes that the claimant could not possibly introduce evidence within the framework of the complaint sufficient to warrant a grant of the relief sought.Citation and punctuation omitted. Scouten v. Amerisave Mtg. Corp ., 283 Ga. 72, 73 1 656 SE2d 820 2008. “In deciding a motion to dismiss, all pleadings are to be construed most favorably to the party who filed them, and all doubts regarding such pleadings must be resolved in the filing party’s favor.” Id. As this Court held immediately after the passage of the Civil Practice Act in 1968, a plaintiff’s complaint “need only state a claim, and does not have to allege facts sufficient to set forth a cause of action.” Bazemore v. Burnet , 117 Ga. App. 849, 852 161 SE2d 924 1968.
So viewed, the record shows that Walker filed a pro se complaint against Courtney Walker, Davis, and Gregory, as well as a court reporter and the superior court judge who had recently ruled against him in a Lee County custody and visitation dispute for torts including fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, and defamation. After each of the five defendants answered and/or moved to dismiss, Walker dropped his claims against the court reporter and the judge but did not amend his complaint.
