Bucks v. DirecTECH Southwest

The plaintiffs, Woody Bilyeu, Mary Bilyeu and Patrick Shelton, appeal a judgment that sustained an exception of res judicata filed by the three remaining defendants, DirecTECH Southwest, DirecTECH Inc. and Multiband Corp., thus ending the lawsuit, and a judgment that denied the plaintiffs' later motion for leave of court to file a fifth supplemental and amending petition. For the reasons expressed, we affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The Bilyeus were the owners of Comm-Craft Inc. and DirecTECH Inc. ("DT"), companies that, in the early 1980s, installed satellite dishes (and later became part of…