Kennedy v. Joseph

REDMANN, Judge.

Appellants’ pleading titled “Answer, Re-conventional and Third Party Demand” was dismissed on exceptions because it did not, within itself, allege facts constituting a cause of. action and name the third-party defendants (or defendants in reconvention). The pleading did, however, “adopt by reference all portions of the answer” of a named insurer (which alleged the missing elements of a cause of action) and it described as its intended defendants “the other persons involved in the collision detailed in plaintiff’s original petition.” We therefore reverse, holding that the…