General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Sneed

Nine suits were filed by the plaintiff in the district court of Webster parish, La., against various defendants, for different amounts. The cause of action and the pleadings in each suit are the same, and, except as above noted, the suits are identical in all respects.

These suits were consolidated in the district court and tried together, but, for some reason which is not disclosed by the record, two judgments were rendered, one in the Kelly Sneed Case and another in the cases of the eight other defendants. From these two judgments plaintiff took an appeal to the Court of Appeal, Second…