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WRIGHT v. BRUYERE

No. 14485.

397 So.2d 40 (1981)

Patrick H. WRIGHT, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Martha Elizabeth Goulette BRUYERE, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

March 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wright & Wright by Patrick H. Wright, Jr., Monroe, for plaintiff-appellant.

Love, Rigby, Dehan, Love & McDaniel by Kenneth Rigby, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.

Before HALL, MARVIN and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ.

MARVIN, Judge.

This defamation action arose when Mrs. Bruyere, on allegations of her then attorney's fraud and ill practices, sued to annul a separation action rendered against her by default. Her attorney in the separation suit then brought this action for defamation while Mrs. Bruyere's suit to annul was pending. The trial court sustained Mrs. Bruyere's exception in the defamation action on the authority

"... that a cause of action for defamatory statements...

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