Housing Authority of Monroe v. Wheatley

FRED W. JONES, Jr, Judge.

The Housing Authority of the City of Monroe (Housing Authority) instituted eviction proceedings against one of its tenants, Sharon Wheatley. Upon notice of the eviction proceeding, Wheatley filed both a dec-linatory exception (for insufficiency of service of process) and a dilatory exception (for vagueness). Both exceptions were denied by the lower court. At trial on the merits, the Housing Authority claimed rent was consistently paid late and extensive, damage was repeatedly done to the apartment by Wheatley’s boyfriend, all in violation of the written lease. The…