Case Name: Lucille Greco HEBERT v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1982-11-16
Citations: 432 So. 2d 872
Docket Number: No. 82 CA 0086
Parties: Lucille Greco HEBERT v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY.
Judges: Before COVINGTON, LEAR and LANIER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 432
Pages: 872–873

Head Matter:
Lucille Greco HEBERT v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY.
No. 82 CA 0086.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
Nov. 16, 1982.
On Rehearing April 13, 1983.
Carlos E. Lazarus, Jr., Houma, for defendant-appellee (Patterson & Edmonson Const. Inc.)
Christopher B. Siegrist, Houma, for plaintiff-appellee (Betty Gros Gaudet).
Lawrence J. Centola, Jr., New Orleans, for Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Ronald R. Thompson, Baton Rouge, for Louisiana Dept, of Highway.
Huntington B. Downer, Jr., Houma, for City of Houma.
Jude T. Fanguy, Houma, for Lucille Gre-co Hebert.
Robert D. Morvant, Thibodaux, for U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Harold J. Lamy, New Orleáns, for Ruby Woolens.
Before COVINGTON, LEAR and LANIER, JJ.

Opinion:
COVINGTON, Judge.
In this action to recover property damages brought by Lucille Greco Hebert, the owner of property damaged by the accident described in the companion case of Betty Gros Gaudet v. Louisiana Department of Highways, 432 So.2d 867 (La.App. 1 Cir. 1982), Docket Number 82 CA 0085, in which a separate decision has been rendered by us on this date, the trial court awarded plaintiff, Lucille Greco Hebert, the sum of $14,-886.00 against Patterson and Edmonson Construction Company and the Estate of Jackson Gaudet.
Our review of the record reveals that the Estate of Jackson Gaudet was not properly before the court below; no pleadings were filed on behalf of the Estate and no preliminary default was entered against it, thus there was no joinder of issue as to this defendant. Accordingly, the judgment against the Estate must be set aside.
For the foregoing reasons and the reasons stated in the companion case of Betty Gros Gaudet v. Louisiana Department of Highways, supra, the judgment appealed herein is amended to read: It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that there be judgment herein in favor of plaintiff, Lucille Greco Hebert, and against Patterson and Edmonson Construction Company in the full sum of Fourteen Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty Six (14,886.00) Dollars, together with legal interest from date of judgment until paid, and all costs of the proceedings. All costs of this appeal are assessed against Patterson and Edmonson Construction Company.
AMENDED AND AS AMENDED, AFFIRMED.