Rivet v. First Financial Bank, FSB.

538 So.2d 216 (1989)

Mary Anna RIVET and Minna Ree Winer

v.

FIRST FINANCIAL BANK, FSB., and First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

No. 87-CC-2599.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 30, 1989.

Betty Mullin, New Orleans, for applicants.

Edmond Miranne, Jr., Metairie, for respondents.

LEMMON, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether plaintiffs, who are the wives of Edmond G. Miranne, Sr. and Edmond G. Miranne, Jr., are barred by res judicata principles from asserting a claim to an interest in certain assets pledged by them and their husbands to defendant bank on the basis that a bankruptcy court…