REEDER v. SUCCESSION OF PALMER

Nos. 92-C-2965, 92-C-3002.

623 So.2d 1268 (1993)

O. William REEDER v. The SUCCESSION OF Michael B. PALMER, Lynn Paul Martin, Individually and d/b/a LPM Enterprises and Bank of La-Place.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis B. Murov, Robert E. Kerrigan, John F. Willis, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for applicant.

Stephen W. Rider, McGlinchey, Stafford, Cellini & Lang, New Orleans, Joseph Accardo, Jr., Bruce A. North, Lynn P. Martin, Accardo, Edrington & Golden, La Place, for respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The question before us is whether this state court action is barred by res judicata because of a prior federal court judgment in the defendants' favor in a suit based on the same factual transaction or wrong as the instant case. Reeder sued for damages in federal court under federal securities statutes as the result of an alleged Ponzi or pyramid scheme perpetrated by Martin...

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