National Income Realty Trust v. Paddie

|2PARRO, Judge.

National Income Realty Trust appeals the trial court’s judgment dismissing its suit to nullify a default judgment obtained against it and in favor of Cecilia Stephens Paddie in the amount of $250,000. We reverse.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In June 1994, Cecilia Stephens Paddie filed suit against Consolidated Capital Income Trust (“CCIT”), claiming damages for injuries she sustained in a fall at the Flannery House Apartments in Baton Rouge (“the personal injury suit”).1 The personal injury suit named various persons and entities as defendants, alleging they were “owners…