Case ID: so2d_614/html/1262-03.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

Georgia BUTLER v. REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
    No. 93-CC-0366.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 26, 1993.
   In re Regional Transit Auth.; — Defendants); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Orleans, Civil District Court, Div. “I”, No. 91-3460; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 92CW-2325.

Denied. Result correct.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. Transit Management was not an indispensable party. Nevertheless, because the non-specific denial in the answer may have been misleading, the trial judge in her discretion could have granted a new trial, reopened the evidence, or (as she did) granted a mistrial.

HALL, J., not on panel.