Case Name: SUCCESSION OF Francis Hale BAGWELL
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1980-12-02
Citations: 391 So. 2d 919
Docket Number: No. 14350
Parties: SUCCESSION OF Francis Hale BAGWELL.
Judges: Before MARVIN, JASPER E. JONES and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 391
Pages: 919–920

Head Matter:
SUCCESSION OF Francis Hale BAGWELL.
No. 14350.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.
Dec. 2, 1980.
James Sharp, Jr., Monroe, for petitioner-appellant, H. E. Martin.
Law Offices of John S. C. Massey by David G. Haynes, West Monroe, for respondent-appellee, Herbert Bagwell.
Before MARVIN, JASPER E. JONES and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ.

Opinion:
MARVIN, Judge.
After rejection of his wife's demand to probate an allegedly "lost" statutory will in which the husband and the wife were legatees, the husband then sued for probate of the alleged lost will and was met with a "Motion for Judicial Estoppel".
This motion, filed on the grounds that the husband was aware of his wife's suit to probate the will and should have joined in, was sustained and the husband's demands were rejected and he appeals.
The sustaining of the motion (plea or exception) of judicial estoppel was clearly wrong. Mitchell v. Bertolla, 340 So.2d 287 (La.1976); Welch v. Crown Zellerbach Corporation, 359 So.2d 154 (La.1978). None of the variations of the common law doctrine of res judicata may be engrafted upon our Civil Code authority, Arts. 2285-2287, 3556. See Welch, supra.
REVERSED at appellee's cost and remanded.