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TRAMONTE v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORP.

No. 99-CA-1396.

760 So.2d 1192 (2000)

Kristie A. TRAMONTE v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION, Murphy-Graham, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

April 25, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan Cave, LLP, Charles A. Newman, Peter W. Herzog, III, St. Louis, Missouri, David G. Radlauer, Thomas A. Casey, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, LLP, New Orleans, Louisiana, William F. Bologna, Habans, Bologna & Carriere, New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for Daimlerchrysler Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, Louisiana, for plaintiff-appellee.

(Court composed of Judges CHARLES GRISBAUM, Jr., THOMAS F. DALEY and SUSAN M. CHEHARDY).

GRISBAUM, Chief Judge.

Defendant-appellant, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, appeals the trial court's judgment overruling its declinatory exception of improper venue. We affirm.

ISSUE

We are called on to determine whether the language, "in a parish of proper venue as to the defendant" in La.Code Civ. P. art. 593 limits venue in a class action suit to the parish of defendant's principal place of business and whether the trial court erred in overruling...

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