Case ID: so2d_572/html/0047-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sam CASHIO Jr. and Susan Cashio Individually and Sam Cashio on Behalf of His Legal and Natural Minor Son, Todd M. Cashio v. KOJIS AND SONS SIGN, the Travelers Insurance Company & Sterling Sign Corp.
    No. 90-C-2399.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Jan. 11, 1991.
   In re Cashio, Sam Jr.; Cashio, Susan;— Plaintiffs; Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number CA90 0222; Parish of Terrebonne 32nd Judicial District Court Div. “B” Number 89881.

Prior Report: La.App., 568 So.2d 1388.

Denied.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs, but objects to the procedure used in this case. The trial court granted defendant’s motion to strike the attorney’s fees claim in this products liability action. This action by the trial court promoted piecemeal appeals and delayed the trial of the merits of the action.

In effect the granting of the motion to strike was equivalent to maintaining an exception of partial no cause of action, which is frowned upon for the same reason. The better way to handle such a claim is to exclude evidence of attorney’s fees at the trial on the merits because there is no right of recovery, allowing the plaintiff to proffer the evidence in the event of reversal on appeal of the ruling on the right to attorney’s fees.