Quality Transport, Inc. v. Younger Bros., Inc.

ON REMAND FROM SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

EDWARDS, Judge.

These consolidated cases are before us on remand from the Louisiana Supreme Court, so that we might reconsider our earlier opinion1 in light of the ruling in Arceneaux v. Domingue, 365 So.2d 1330 (La.1978).

In Arceneaux the Supreme Court noted, what it termed, a “widespread misunderstanding” of its holding in Canter v. Koehring Company, 283 So.2d 716 (La.1973), concerning the standard of appellate review of facts vis-a-vis the doctrine of manifest error. The Supreme Court in an attempt to correct this misconception held: “Therefore, the…