Wright v. Bruyere

MARVIN, Judge.

This defamation action arose when Mrs. Bruyere, on allegations of her then attorney’s fraud and ill practices, sued to annul a separation action rendered against her by default. Her attorney in the separation suit then brought this action for defamation while Mrs. Bruyere’s suit to annul was pending. The trial court sustained Mrs. Bruyere’s exception in the defamation action on the authority

“. .. that a cause of action for defamatory statements in the pleadings of a civil case does not arise . . . until final determination of such suit ...” Calvert v. Simon, 311 So.2d 13…