GENE SMART, ET AL VERSUS GOLD, WEEMS, BRUSER, SUES & RUNDELL, ET AL
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STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT 06-1331 GENE SMART, ET AL. VERSUS GOLD, WEEMS, BRUSER, SUES & RUNDELL, ET AL. ********** APPEAL FROM THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF RAPIDES, NO. 223,539 HONORABLE GEORGE C. METOYER, JR., DISTRICT JUDGE ********** MARC T. AMY JUDGE ********** Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Marc T. Amy, and Glenn B. Gremillion, Judges. WRIT GRANTED. DENIAL OF EXCEPTIONS OF VAGUENESS AND IMPROPER CUMULATION OF ACTIONS REVERSED. REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS. Chad A. Dudley 1300 Millerville Road Baton Rouge, LA 70816-1231 (225) 272-5300 COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS: Gene Smart Priscilla Babin Richard C. Stanley William M. Ross Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter, L.L.C. 909 Poydras, Suite 2500 New Orleans, LA 70112 (504) 523-1580 COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT/APPLICANT: James Ogden Middleton, II Michael John O'Shee Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell Post Office Box 6118 Alexandria, LA 71301 (318) 445-6471 COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS: Raymond L. Brown, Jr. Henry B. Bruser, III Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues, &Rundell, L.L.C. Robert G. Nida Kenneth Odrie Ortego Randall M. Seeser Michael John O'Shee Randall Lee Wilmore Samuel Newman Poole, Jr. Dorrell Jarrell Brister Peggy Dean St. John Gregory Brian Upton Eugene Joseph Sues Charles Stovall Weems, III Edward E. Rundell James P. Roy Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, L.L.C. Post Office Box 3668 Lafayette, LA 70502 (337) 233-3033 COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS: Raymond L. Brown, Jr. Henry B. Bruser, III Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues, &Rundell, L.L.C. Robert G. Nida Kenneth Odrie Ortego Randall M. Seeser Michael John O'Shee Randall Lee Wilmore Samuel Newman Poole, Jr. Dorrell Jarrell Brister Peggy Dean St. John Gregory Brian Upton Eugene Joseph Sues Charles Stovall Weems, III Edward E. Rundell AMY, Judge. For the reasons assigned in the companion case of Gene Smart, et al. v. Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, et al., 06-1414 (La.App. 3 Cir. _/_/07), _ So.2d _ the trial court s judgment denying the exceptions of vagueness and improper cumulation of actions filed on behalf of J. Ogden Middleton is reversed. This matter is remanded to the trial court with instructions to enter judgment granting the exception of vagueness in compliance with La.Code Civ.P. art. 933(B) and to reserve consideration of the exception of improper cumulation of actions until the pleadings contain sufficient facts to assess the causes of action alleged. All costs of this proceeding are assessed to the respondents, Gene Smart and Priscilla Babin. WRIT GRANTED. DENIAL OF EXCEPTIONS OF VAGUENESS AND IMPROPER CUMULATION OF ACTIONS REVERSED. REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.
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