Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott and William H. Scott, Jr. v. Douglas Dan Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC

• Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
• Decided: December 21, 2020
• Docket: 2020CW1071
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

STATE OF LOUISIANA

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

SANDRA BELL LEMOINE SCOTT NO. 2020 CW 1071 AND WILLIAM H. SCOTT, JR. PAGE 1 OF 2

VERSUS

DOUGLAS DAN GUILLIAMS, LEIGHANN MARI GUILLIAMS FABRE, AND PARKVIEW PLAZA DECM4BER 21, 2020 PROPERTIES, L. L. C.

In Re: Sandra and William Scott, for applying supervisory writs, 19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 681881.

BEFORE: WHIPPLE, C. J., WELCH AND CHUTZ, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER. The portion of the trial court' s

October 14, 2020 judgment sustaining the peremptory exception of no right of action and dismissing all claims of plaintiff,

William H. Scott, Jr., filed by defendants Douglas Dan Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC is a final appealable judgment. See La. Code Civ. P. art. 1915A( 1). Therefore, the writ application is granted, for the limited purpose of remanding the case to the trial court with instructions to grant relator, William H. Scott, Jr., an appeal pursuant to the pleading that notified the district court of his intention to seek supervisory writs. See In re Howard, 541 So. 2d 195, 197 ( La. 1989) ( per curiam). In the event plaintiff, William H. Scott, Jr. seeks to appeal the trial court' s judgment, he shall submit an order for appeal to the trial court days within thirty of this court' s order.

Additionally, a copy of this court' s order is to be included in the appellate record.

Generally, an exception of no cause of action should not be maintained in part, so as to prevent of appeals a multiplicity thereby forcing an appellate court to consider the merits of the action in a piecemeal fashion. Robinson v. Wayne and Beverly Papania and Pyrenees Investments, LLC, 2015- 1354 ( La. 1st App. Cir. 10/ 31/ 16), 207 So. 3d 566, 572, writ denied sub nom., Robinson v. Papania, 2016- 2113 ( La. 3/ 13/ 17), 216 So. 3d 808. Additionally, the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure does not

provide for a partial peremptory exception raising the objection of no right of Poule D' Eau action. Properties, LLC v. TLC Properties, Inc., 2018- 1400 ( La. App. 1st Cir. 6/ 16/ 20), 2020 WL 3249294 ( unpublished). Therefore, we find the trial court' s October 14, 2020 judgment defendants' sustaining partial exception of no right of action and partial exception of no cause of action of Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott' s claims to be improper. Accordingly, we grant this portion of the writ application and reverse that the part of October 14, 2020 judgment sustaining defendants', Douglas Dan Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC, exception of no cause of action as to plaintiff' s, Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott, claims of Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract of Lease, Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract ( Act of Sale), Fraud against STATE OF LOUISIANA

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the plaintiffs, generally, Commingling of Assets ( the " alter

ego" doctrine), and Simulation of Sale and/ or Donation in Disguise ( Act of Sale), and deny this exception. We also reverse the trial court' s judgment defendants', Douglas Dan sustaining Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC, exception of no right of action as to plaintiff' s, Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott, claims for Lesion Beyond Moiety and Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract ( Act of , Sale), and deny this exception.

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