Legal Opinion
Buddy Patterson Gateway Gulf Service v. Howell
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 6, 1980No. 13560PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
392 So.2d 140 (1980)
BUDDY PATTERSON GATEWAY GULF SERVICE
v.
Elzie HOWELL.
No. 13560.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
October 6, 1980.
Robert W. Troyer, Ponchatoula, for plaintiff.
Dennis C. Kronlage, Hammond, for defendant.
Before ELLIS, COLE and WATKINS, JJ.
COLE, Judge.
This is an appeal involving the sufficiency of evidence required to obtain a default judgment in a suit on an open account. We find that the evidence presented to the city court was not adequate to establish a prima face case. We therefore vacate the default judgment.
Plaintiff-appellee, Buddy Patterson Gateway Gulf, filed…
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