Legal Opinion

Guillot v. Munn

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 23, 1999No. 99-C-0273PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

734 So.2d 613 (1999)

Lisa Smith Munn GUILLOT

v.

Marion Patrick MUNN, Jr.

No. 99-C-0273.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 23, 1999.

PER CURIAM.[*]

Granted; judgment vacated and case remanded to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit. La. Const. art. V, § 8(B) provides that a "majority of the judges sitting in a case must concur to render judgment." The court of appeal erred as a matter of law in concluding that because the "members of [the] five judge panel cannot agree on a disposition of this case[, t]he effect... is that the judgment of the trial court is affirmed." Under its constitutional authority…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Kramer v. Continental Cas. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1994
  2. Derbofen v. TL James & Co., Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1978
  3. In re BanksSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1999
  4. Kramer v. Continental Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1994

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Guillot v. MunnSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2000
  2. Parfait v. Transocean Offshore, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2007
  3. Parfait v. Transocean Offshore, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2007

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