Art. 4660.Injunctive Relief

A concursus proceeding only delivers its benefit, one case resolving competing claims to a single fund or piece of property, if every claimant stays inside it. Article 4660 protects that structure by letting the court grant the plaintiff injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from instituting or prosecuting any other action or proceeding on the same claim involved in the concursus.

The reach of that injunction is broad by design. It covers any court of Louisiana or of the United States, so a claimant cannot sidestep the injunction by filing the same claim in federal court instead of state court. Without that reach, a competing claimant could chase the same fund through a second lawsuit, exposing the fund, or the stakeholder who deposited it, to inconsistent outcomes in two different forums.

Article 4660 does not create a wholly new species of injunctive relief; it applies the general injunction machinery found in Title I, including the hearing and security requirements in Articles 3601 and 3610, to this particular ground. As Article 4661 makes clear, though, this injunctive-relief option does not travel automatically into every special-statute concursus proceeding built on the Title X framework.