Case ID: so2d_534/html/0430-02.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

Steven Christopher GRIFFIN and Lynn Griffin v. TENNECO OIL COMPANY et al.
    No. 88-C-2663.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 9, 1988.
   In re: Tenneco Oil Co.; — Defendant(s); Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number CA-9297; Parish of St. Bernard 34th Judicial District Court Div. “B” Number 51-145

Prior report: La.App., 531 So.2d 498.

Denied.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. The judgment of the trial court was an unauthorized partial final judgment which promoted piece meal appeals. The more appropriate procedure was for the trial court to exclude evidence at trial pertaining to exemplary damages, allowing plaintiffs to proffer such evidence.

WATSON, J., concurs for reasons assigned by LEMMON, J.

MARCUS and DENNIS, JJ., would grant the writ.