TRAHAN v. FINANCEAMERICA CORP.

No. 88-521.

546 So.2d 352 (1989)

Merlin J. TRAHAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FINANCEAMERICA CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merlin J. Trahan, New Iberia, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lawrence R. Dodd, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before STOKER, LABORDE and YELVERTON, JJ.


YELVERTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining an exception of res judicata and dismissing plaintiff's suit. We affirm.

There are two lawsuits involved here. We will refer to them as the first lawsuit and the second lawsuit. It is the dismissal of the second lawsuit that is on appeal before us now, and it is the judgment rendered in the first lawsuit that forms the basis for the plea of res judicata.

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