Case ID: so2d_474/html/1293-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BATON ROUGE BANK & TRUST CO. v. BAYOU RENTALS, INC., Ted F. Dunham, Jr., Katharine O. Dunham & Winn Rock, Inc.
    No. 85-CC-1615.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 10, 1985.
    Stay Order Granted Sept. 23, 1985.
    Reconsideration Denied; Stay Order Vacated Sept. 26, 1985.
   In Re Baton Rouge Bank & Trust Co.; Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review, Stay of Proceedings; Parish of East Baton Rouge 19th Judicial District Court Div. “B” Number 291-274; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number CW/85/0994.

Stay order recalled. Writ denied.

CALOGERO & DENNIS, JJ., would grant the writ.

LEMMON, J.,

dissents. The court of appeal was wrong on the issue of pre-emp-tive rights in Dunham v. Dunham, 467 So.2d 555 (La.App. 1st Cir.1985) and this Court was wrong in denying certiorari, 469 So.2d 989-990. Nevertheless that decision is not res judicata because the bank was not a party in the previous case. If collateral estoppel is the basis for not correcting the previous decision, then we should overrule this Court’s cases holding that collateral estoppel does not apply in Louisiana; and if neither collateral estoppel nor res judicata applies, then the pre-emptive rights of the bank should be recognized.