Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-04-12 21:04:29.920124+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:07.517086
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

        COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

PRISCILLA DUET AND            CURTIS                                         NO.        2022 CW         1198
DUET,    HUSBAND AND WIFE

VERSUS

CALEB LAND       CORPORATION                                                 APRIL 12,               2023

In Re:          Caleb       Land        Corporation,            applying           for        supervisory
                writs,        17th       Judicial         District           Court,           Parish           of
                Lafourche,        No.    143161.

BEFORE:         McCLENDON,        HOLDRIDGE,       AND    GREEjNE,      JJ.

        WRIT    GRANTED       IN PART AND         DENIED    INI PART.         The portion of the
district       court's October            5,    2022    judgmeht     that      denied Caleb Land
Corporation's          motion       to     file    a     reconventional             demand          against
plaintiffs,          Priscilla        Duet       and     Curtis    Duet,           in    its       proposed
third     supplemental          and      amended        pleading       is     reversed             in    part.
Portions        of      the     proposed           pleading        with        respect              to     the
reconventional          demand       may       constitute        compulsory             reconventional
demands,       arising      out     of     the    transaction        or      occurrence             that       is
the    subject matter of the principal                     action.      See La.           Code Civ.            P.
art.     1061 (B).      Therefore,          to    the     extent       the    pleading             asserted
compulsory       reconventional            demands,       the    district          court       abused      its
discretion       in   denying        the   motion        which    sought      leave           to   file    the
reconventional           demand,         and     the    motion     is     granted             in   part        to
allow     the    filing        of    the       reconventional           demand           in    the       third
supplemental          and     amended      pleading        to    the    extent           it    asserts          a
compulsory        reconventional               demand.     The    writ        is        denied       in    all
other respects.

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COURT    OF APPEAL,         FIRST CIRCUIT

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       DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
           FOR THE       COURT