Red River Waterway Commission v. Succession of Fry

|TThe petitioners, Cynthia Peironnet, Elizabeth Franklin, Eleanor de St. Mar-ceaux and Pamela Comegys, appeal a judgment in favor of the Red River Waterway Commission (“the Commission”). The district court sustained the Commission’s exception of res judicata, finding that the petitioners’ claims were barred by the pri- or settlement of the Commission’s 1993 expropriation action. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

The succession of Elizabeth Fry, who died in March 1991, was opened in May 1991. In September 1993, the Commission filed a petition for expropriation against the Succession of…