DEVILLE v. DEFENDING ATTYS. FOR CONTINENTAL

No. 83-603.

448 So.2d 885 (1984)

Elton DEVILLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEFENDING ATTORNEYS FOR CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, Triangle Refineries, Inc., George H. Robinson, Jr., Liskow & Lewis, Xavier G. Lemond, Charles K. Reasonover, Stephen Vogel, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles and Teresa Brown, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elton Deville, in pro. per.

Voorhies & Labbe, Patrick A. Juneau, Jr. and Kathleen Drew, Lafayette, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Frederick R. Bott, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before GUIDRY and FORET, JJ., and CULPEPPER, J. Pro Tem.


CULPEPPER, Judge Pro Tem.

Elton Deville, plaintiff, brought this defamation action seeking damages for injury to his reputation and business as a result of the appearance of an alleged defamatory allegation in a trial memorandum prepared by defendants, attorneys at law. The trial memorandum was the product of a previously litigated Federal Court case where the defendants herein represented the parties adverse to the plaintiff, Deville. The trial court held, that as...

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