Olivier v. Doga

CULPEPPER, Judge.

The plaintiff, Earl John Olivier, filed this suit for a writ of mandamus against Donald Doga, clerk of court of St. Landry Parish, ordering the clerk to cancel a judgment in favor of plaintiff’s former wife, Marsha Mock Fontenot, and against plaintiff for the sum of $16,363. The judgment arose out of a suit for the partition of community property. Plaintiff and his former wife compromised the judgment, and she executed a proper authorization to cancel it. The wife’s attorney, Louis B. Viviano, had filed a contingent fee contract two days before the filing of the authorization…