Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott and William H. Scott, Jr. v. Douglas Dan Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC ( 2020 )

STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
SANDRA BELL LEMOINE SCOTT NO. 2020 CW 1071
AND WILLIAM H. SCOTT, JR.
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VERSUS
DOUGLAS DAN GUILLIAMS,
LEIGHANN MARI GUILLIAMS
FABRE, AND PARKVIEW PLAZA DECM4BER 21, 2020
PROPERTIES, L. L. C.
In Re: Sandra and William Scott, for
applying supervisory
writs, 19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East
Baton Rouge, No. 681881.
BEFORE: WHIPPLE, C. J., WELCH AND CHUTZ, JJ.
WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER. The portion of the trial court' s
October 14, 2020 judgment sustaining the peremptory exception of
no right of action and dismissing all claims of plaintiff,
William H. Scott, Jr., filed by defendants Douglas Dan
Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza
Properties, LLC is a final appealable judgment. See La. Code
Civ. P. art. 1915A( 1). Therefore, the writ application is
granted, for the limited purpose of remanding the case to the
trial court with instructions to grant relator, William H.
Scott, Jr.,
an appeal pursuant to the pleading that notified the
district court of his intention to seek supervisory writs. See
In re Howard, 541 So. 2d 195, 197 ( La. 1989) ( per curiam). In the
event plaintiff, William H. Scott, Jr. seeks to appeal the trial
court' s judgment, he shall submit an order for appeal to the
trial court days
within
thirty of this court' s order.
Additionally, a copy of this court' s order is to be included in
the appellate record.
Generally, an exception of no cause of action should not be
maintained in part, so as to prevent of appeals
a multiplicity
thereby forcing an appellate court to consider the merits of the
action in a piecemeal fashion. Robinson v. Wayne and
Beverly
Papania and Pyrenees Investments, LLC, 2015- 1354 ( La. 1st
App.
Cir. 10/ 31/ 16), 207 So. 3d 566, 572, writ denied sub nom.,
Robinson v. Papania, 2016- 2113 ( La. 3/ 13/ 17), 216 So. 3d 808.
Additionally, the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure does not
provide for a partial peremptory exception raising the objection
of no right of Poule D' Eau
action. Properties, LLC v. TLC
Properties, Inc., 2018- 1400 ( La. App. 1st Cir. 6/ 16/ 20), 2020 WL
3249294 ( unpublished). Therefore, we find the trial court' s
October 14, 2020 judgment defendants'
sustaining partial
exception of no right of action and partial exception of no
cause of action of Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott' s claims to be
improper. Accordingly, we grant this portion of the writ
application and reverse that the
part of October 14, 2020
judgment sustaining defendants', Douglas Dan Guilliams, Leighann
Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza Properties, LLC, exception
of no cause of action as to plaintiff' s, Sandra Bell Lemoine
Scott, claims of Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract of Lease,
Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract ( Act of Sale), Fraud against
STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
NO. 2020 CW 1071
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the plaintiffs, generally, Commingling of Assets ( the " alter
ego" doctrine), and Simulation of Sale and/ or Donation in
Disguise ( Act of Sale), and deny this exception. We also reverse
the trial court' s judgment defendants', Douglas Dan
sustaining
Guilliams, Leighann Guilliams Fabre, and Parkview Plaza
Properties, LLC, exception of no right of action as to
plaintiff' s, Sandra Bell Lemoine Scott, claims for Lesion Beyond
Moiety and Fraudulent Inducement of a Contract ( Act of , Sale),
and deny this exception.
VGW
JEW
WRC
COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
tat'' DEPUTY CLE K OF COURT
FOR THE COURT