MASTER AUTOMOTIVE WAREHOUSE, INC. v. AMATO

Nos. 89-CA-38, 89-CA-111.

549 So.2d 321 (1989)

MASTER AUTOMOTIVE WAREHOUSE, INC. v. Jacob J. AMATO, Jr., et al. Consolidated with Nelda Toups Schieffler ESTEVE v. Marie Suarez Huntsinger, Divorced Wife of/and Emanuel LONGO.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 17, 1989.

Writ Granted with Order December 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sessions, Fishman, Boisfontaine, Nathan, Winn, Butler & Barkley, Jack M. Alltmont, New Orleans, La., for Master Automotive Warehouse, Inc., plaintiff-appellant.

Amato & Creely, Jacob J. Amato, Jr., Robert G. Creely, Michael F. Somoza, David W. Birdsong, Gretna, La., for Jacob J. Amato, Jr., Robert G. Creely, Michael Somoza and Amato & Creely, defendants-appellees.

CHEHARDY, C.J., and GAUDIN and GRISBAUM, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

This is the companion suit to Esteve v. Longo, 549 So.2d 316, decided this day. These consolidated appeals arise from a mortgage foreclosure proceeding in which the holder of the second-ranked mortgage intervened to contest the amount of attorney's fees claimed by the attorneys for the holder of the first-ranked mortgage, who was the foreclosing creditor.

The dispute arose because the judicial...

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