Legal Opinion

Dunaway v. Spain

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided September 8, 1986No. 85-C-1235PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

493 So.2d 577 (1986)

C.W. DUNAWAY

v.

Alfred O. SPAIN.

No. 85-C-1235.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 8, 1986.

Richard B. Nevils, Baton Rouge, for defendant-applicant.

Richard L. McGimsey, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.

LEMMON,[*] Justice.

We granted certiorari to determine the validity of relator's defense of dation en paiement in this suit on a promissory note. We now set aside the decision of the intermediate court which rejected the defense, concluding (in essential agreement with the trial court) that the evidence established that the defendant gave and plaintiff received a thing…

Also in this document: Concurrence.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Dunaway v. SpainLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1985

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Holley Equipment Company, a Corporation v. Credit Alliance Corporation, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
  2. University Prop. Corp. v. Fidelity Nat. BankLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986
  3. Dugas v. Modular Quarters, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1990

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