Legal Opinion
Summers v. Pray
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 27, 2003No. 2002 CA 1840PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
_J¿FOIL, J.
This appeal challenges a Louisiana trial judge’s refusal to accord full faith and credit to a judgment rendered by a Texas court. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
On August 1, 2000, Ronald Summers, in his capacity as executor of the estate of Elmer Alvis Summers, filed an ex parte *48petition for enforcement of a foreign judgment in the 22nd Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Tammany. Attached to the petition was a copy of a final judgment rendered by a Texas court in favor of Elmer Alvis Summers and against Horace “Clint” Pray, a Louisiana resident, in the amount of $70,000.00 plus…
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