In re Severn Place Associates; State Farm Fire & Cas.; — Defendant(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of Jefferson, 24th Judicial District Court, Div. “D”, No. 404-429; to the Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, No. 92-CW-0536.

Denied.

concurs. At the hearing on the motion for new trial, it may be that any relevant and material facts can be developed on the record without the judge being called as a witness. If it becomes necessary for the judge to testify, a decision the judge should make, then the judge should recuse herself from presiding over the hearing. LSA-C.C.P. Art. 151; LSA-C.E. art. 605. See State v. Wille, 595 So.2d 1149, 1154-1156 (La. 1992).

concurs in the denial. La. Code Civ.Pro. art. 151 contemplates the recusal of a judge who will be a witness to the facts pertinent to the merits of the case, and not the recusal of a judge whom a party desires to call at the hearing on the motion for a new trial to testify as to her behavior during the trial.