Truluck v. Clark

JASPER E. JONES, Judge.

The Constitution provides in part that when a judgment of a district court is to be modified or reversed and one judge of the court of appeal dissents, the case “shall be reargued before a panel of at least five judges prior to rendition of judgment.” La. Const. Art. V, § 8(B) (1974).

The original consideration of this appeal by a three-judge panel produced this result and the case was reargued before a five-judge panel.

This appeal involves the consolidated cases of William D. Truluck v. Raymond Vernon Clark and Dallas Crowley, No. 14,-566 and Hartford Insurance Co. v.…