Opinion
NO. 2018 CW 1454
02-08-2019
LEON MARION LALONDE, JR. AND MARTHA SMITH LALONDE v. FRANK THOMAS VALLOT AND BARBARA KAY BUTLER VALLOT
In Re: Leon Marion LaLonde, Jr. and Martha Smith LaLonde, applying for supervisory writs, 21st Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa, No. 2010-0001994. BEFORE: WHIPPLE, C.J., McCLENDON AMD HIGGINBOTHAM, JJ.
WRIT GRANTED. Concluding that the trial court abused its discretion in granting the respondents' motion in limine as it relates to testimony about the respondents' actual knowledge of defects in the subject immovable property and in disallowing the testimony of the relators' expert in engineering without proper analysis, see La. Code Civ. P. art. 1425(F), we grant the writ and reverse the rulings of the trial court in these regards.
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COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT /s/_________
DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
FOR THE COURT