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PIERCE v. REILY-BENTON CO., INC.

Nos. 2002-C-2253, 2002-C-2367.

846 So.2d 143 (2003)

Eldridge P. PIERCE, et al. v. REILY-BENTON COMPANY, INC., et al. David Poche, et al. v. Reilly-Benton Company, Inc., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 16, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Garner, Timothy B. Francis, Martha Y. Curtis, Christopher T. Chocheles, Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein McAlister & Hilbert, L.L.C., New Orleans, Counsel for Amax Metals Recovery, Inc. and Murphy Oil USA, Inc.

J. Wayne Mumphrey, Wayne B. Mumphrey, Law Offices of J. Wayne Mumphrey, Cameron R. Waddell, Leblanc & Waddell, L.L.C., Glenn E. Diaz, Carlos A. Zelaya II, Chalmette, Counsel for Eldridge P. Pierce.

Court composed of Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY, and Judge LEON A. CANNIZZARO Jr.

ARMSTRONG, J.

In these consolidated writ applications, the relators complain of the trial courts' overruling of their exceptions of improper cumulation of actions. Because we find that the result reached by the trial courts was correct, we will deny the writ applications.

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