Pui Kwan Yuen v. State National Insurance Company, Inc., Riffal, L.L.C. and Geoffrey Scott Hall

STATE OF LOUISIANA

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

PUI KWAN YUEN NO. 2023 CW 1012

VERSUS

STATE NATIONAL INSURANCE
COMPANY, INC., RIFFAL,
L. L. C. AND GEOFFREY SCOTT OCTOBER 11, 2023
HALL

In Re: Gemini Insurance Company, Dugas Pest Control of Baton

Rouge, Inc., and Geoffrey Scott Hall, applying for

supervisory writs, 19th Judicial District Court,

Parish of East Baton Rouge, No. 605561.

BEFORE: WELCH, HOLDRIDGE, AND WOLFE, JJ.

WRIT DENIED.

JEW

EW

Holdridge, J, dissents and would grant the writ. There is
no legal authority for the district court to deprive defendants
of the right to cross examine plaintiff. Plaintiff shall be
available after direct examination for questioning, and nothing
can deprive defendants of their right to cross examine plaintiff
in their case - in chief. See La. Code Civ. P. art. 1634.

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

J l_J`
DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
FOR THE COURT