observing that “there are three ways that a final judgment may be challenged: (1) timely application for a new trial, (2) petition for nullity, and (3) timely appeal”
How later courts described this case
- observing that “there are three ways that a final judgment may be challenged: (1) timely application for a new trial, (2) petition for nullity, and (3) timely appeal”
- joinder of interested parties is an *328 indispensable prerequisite to the validity of a declaratory judgment
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
1LOVE, J.,
Dissents in Part and Concurs in Part.
I respectfully dissent for the reasons assigned by Chief Judge Byrnes. Further, no procedure exists under Louisiana law for a collateral attack on the declaratory judgment.
I concur in the balance of the majority opinion.