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Date Created: 2023-05-10 14:04:50.887435+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

                COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

CLIFFORD GILLIE                                                                                     NO.        2023      CW    0379

VERSUS

KEVIN      J.    GILLIE                                                                                   MAY       10,       2023

In Re:            Kevin          J.    Gillie,           applying          f6r           supervisory                writs,          19th
                  Judicial             District           Court,          Patish               of    East        Baton         Rouge,
                  No.      686006.

BEFORE:           WELCH,         PENZATO,           AND    LANIER,         J,J.
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            STAY       LIFTED;             WRIT     GRANTED          IN    P~T;               DENIED           IN    PART.           The
stay      previously             issued           by    this     court . in                   this    matter             is    hereby
lifted.          The       transcript             of     the    February    1
                                                                                         5,    2020        hearing            held    on
relator's,            Kevin       J.        Gillie's, "         Motion      I           for    New    Trial          and       Action
of    Nullity         of     Judgment"             indicates          that               relator           and      respondent,
Clifford         Gillie,          stipulated              to    vacate          I       the    judgment             of    eviction
rendered         by       the    trial          court      on    January-                3,    2020.           A    stipulation
has       the    effect          of        a     judicial        admission                    or     confession,                   which
binds       all       parties              and     the     court. '                     Stipulations                between          the
parties         in    a    specific             case     are     binding                 on    the    trial          court          when
not    in       derogation             of       law.      Such       agreements                    are     the       law       of    the
case.           Becht       v.        Morgan       Building &              Spas,               Inc.,        2002-2047 (              La.
4/23/03),            843    So.2d          1109,        1112,    cert.          denied,              540       U.S.       878,       124
S.Ct.       289,          157     L.Ed.2d              142 (    2003) ('                quoting       R.J.          D' Hemecourt
Petroleum,                Inc.        v.        McNamara,            444        So.2d               600 (          La.        1983)).
Therefore,            as    Kevin          J.    Gillie        and    Clifford                 Gillie          stipulated             to
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vacation         of       the    January           3,    2020       judgme~t              of    eviction,                the       April
17,    2023       warrant             of    possession          was       imriroperly                 issued.                 See    La.
Code       Civ.       P.        art.        4733.          Additionally,                       the        April          17,        2023
warrant         of    possession                appears        to    have ~ een                 issued          by       the       clerk
of    court       and      not        the       trial      court.          SEte           La.        Code       Civ.          P.    art.
4 7 33.     Accordingly,                   the    April        17,    2023              warrant           of   possession             is
vacated.          The writ             is denied in all other respects.

                                                                    JEW
                                                                    AHP
                                                                    WIL

COURT      OF APPEAL,            FIRST CIRCUIT

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       DEPUTY         CLERK OF             COURT
                FOR    THE      COURT