Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-10 15:07:24.253963+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:50:02.081297
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

             COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

SHIRLEY      SMITH AND AMANDA HUDSON,                                        NO.     2023 CW     0821
INDIVIDUALLY AND ON              BEHALF OF
ANTHONY      RAY    SMITH,      DECEASED

VERSUS

FDF ENERGY         SERVICES,       LLC AND                                 OCTOBER 10,          2023
WAYNE      GRIFFITH

In Re:         FDF    Energy          Services,       LLC   and    Wayne    Griffith,      applying
               for       supervisory          writs,    19th       Judicial       District      Court,
               Parish of East Baton Rouge,                    No.    716824.

BEFORE:        McCLENDON,          HESTER,      AND MILLER,         JJ.

        WRIT DENIED.

                                                  CHH
                                                  SMM

        Mcclendon,           J.,       dissents         and        would     grant       the      writ
application.             The    February        25,    2023      judgment     that      granted    the
defendants',         FDF    Energy Services,            LLC      and Wayne       Griffith,      motion
to    transfer      the    underlying          suit    to   DeSoto       Parish    based   on    forum
non    conveniens          is    an    interlocutory          ruling.        See       Addington    v.
McGehee,      29,792 ( La.         App.      2nd Cir.       8/20/97),      698     So.2d 702,     704.
The plaintiffs'            recourse,      at    that    time,      would have been to apply
for    a    writ    of     supervisory         review       of     that    ruling.       Llopis     v.
State,      2016-0041 (         La.    App.    4th    Cir.    12/14/16),         206    So.3d    1066,
1070.       The    motion       for    new     trial    was      erroneously       considered      and
granted      by    the     trial       court    given       that    no    procedure      exists    for
applying for a           new trial following an interlocutory ruling.                             Id.

COURT      OF APPEAL,      FIRST CIRCUIT

            a.s.D
      DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
             FOR THE      COURT