COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT TROY GAUTREAU, JR. AND NO. 2024 CW 0614 KRISTIN GAUTREAU

SLC DEVELOPMENT OF ASCENSION, LLC AND SUZANNA BEIRIGER, NICOLE CROTWELL ROWELL, SOUTH LOUISIANA GROUP, LLC

CONSOLIDATED WITH TROY JAMES GAUTREAU, JR. AND KRISTIN ZIEGLER GAUTREAU

VERSUS

DWIGHT D. POIRRIER AND THE DECEMBER 3, 2024 SECURITY TITLE GUARANTEE CORPORATION OF BALTIMORE

In Re: Dwight D. Poirrier, applying for supervisory writs, 23rd Judicial District Court, Parish of Ascension, No. 123051 c/ w 123111.

BEFORE: WOLFE, MILLER, AND GREENE, Ji.

WRIT GRANTED. The June 3, 2024 judgment denying the motion for summary judgment filed by defendant, Dwight D. Poirrier, is reversed. On de novo review, we find that defendant established summary judgment was proper as to the third element of the plaintiffs' legal malpractice claim, loss causation. The burden then shifted to plaintiffs, who failed to produce evidence sufficient to establish the existence of a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the incorrect property description in the act of sale caused them damages. See Brunswick Seafood, Inc. v. Williams Law Group, LLC, 2017- 1022 ( La. App. 1st Cir. 1/ 8/ 19), 2019 WL 139377, * 3( unpublished), writ denied, 2019- 0335 ( La. 4/ 29/ 19), 268 So. 3d 1022. Accordingly, the motion for summary judgment filed by Dwight D. Poirrier is granted and the claims of Troy James Gautreau, Jr. and Kristin Ziegler Gautreau asserted against him are dismissed with prejudice.

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COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

N J DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT FOR THE COURT