ARCENEAUX v. COPES

No. 85-926.

497 So.2d 1037 (1986)

Jeanette W. ARCENEAUX & Clarence Arceneaux (Intervenor), Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gary COPES & Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1986.

Writ Denied February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen, Gooch and Bourgeois, Sera H. Russell, III, Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.

Sidney P. Landry, Jr. and Paul J. Demahy, Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GUIDRY, FORET, STOKER, DOUCET and LABORDE, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

This suit for malicious prosecution arose out of an incident which occurred on December 14, 1983, when plaintiff, Mrs. Jeanette W. Arceneaux, was arrested for shoplifting by the Lafayette City Police at the local Wal-Mart store. The trial court, in written reasons for judgment, found that plaintiff had established by a preponderance of the evidence the concurrent presence of the six necessary elements for successfully prosecuting a suit for malicious...

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