Case ID: so2d_626/html/1181-02.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

Raymond DEROUEN v. QUINTANA PETROLEUM.
    No. 93-C-1848.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Oct. 29, 1993.
   Prior report: La.App., 618 So.2d 1238.

In re Derouen, Raymond; Derouen, Tammy; — Plaintiffs); applying for writ of certio-rari and/or review; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, No. CA92-0984; Parish of Vermilion, 15th Judicial District Court, Div. “G”, No. 90-57,799G.

Granted. Judgment of court of appeal is vacated and set aside. Amended judgment was invalid and is set aside. Case remanded to the district court for further proceedings.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. The amended judgment substituted one party defendant for another and this violated La.Code Civ. Proc. art. 1951. The majority properly vacated the amended judgment and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings. My preference, however, would be to recognize the judgement, if the parties would stipulate that the amended judgment was that originally intended by the district court, and to allow the court of appeal to review the merits of the judgment on the complete record. This procedure would be more efficient than remanding to the trial court, apparently for a new hearing on the same motion for summary judgment with the same result and a new appeal on the same issue.

KIMBALL, J., not on panel.