Legal Opinion

West v. Melancon

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided March 19, 2003No. 2002-CA-1335PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

| PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

This is a nullity action. Granting defendants’ declinatory exception of insufficiency of service of process, the trial court dismissed this action. From that ruling, the plaintiff, Dodiyi William West, filed this pro se appeal. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the trial court’s ruling sustaining the exception, but remand for further proceedings pursuant to La. C.C.P. art. 932.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Mr. West commenced this action seeking to nullify this court’s decision in West v. Melancon, 99-1980 (La.App. 4 Cir. 10/4/00), 772 So.2d 166. In our…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Richardson v. O'NEALLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1998
  2. O'Neill v. SumrallLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1985
  3. West v. MelanconLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2000

3Cited by2 opinions

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