CICHIRILLO v. AVONDALE INDUSTRIES, INC.

Nos. 04-C-2894, 04-C-2918.

917 So.2d 424 (2005)

Sam P. CICHIRILLO v. AVONDALE INDUSTRIES, INC., Hopeman Brothers, Inc., Individually as Alleged Successor in Interest to its Former Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, Wayne Manufacturing Company, Inc., Uniroyal, Inc., Charles Johnson, Eagle, Inc., Reilly-Benton Company, Inc., et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blue Williams, LLP, Edwin A. Ellinghausen, III, Brian Carl Bossier, Robert Edgar Caraway, III, Erin Helen Boyd, Mandeville, for Applicant in No. 2004-C-2918

Abbott, Simses & Kuchler, APLC, Houston, Johanna Gabrielle King; Lee, Futrell & Perles, LLP, Richard Marshall Perles, Gary Allen Lee, New Orleans; Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, William Lee Schuette, Jr., Leon Gary, Jr., Baton Rouge; Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, APLC, John Emerson Galloway, Larry Gene Canada, New Orleans; Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, LLP, Dominic J. Ovella, Christopher Kelly Lightfoot, Claude Alvin Greco, Valerie T. Schexnayder, Metairie; Murray Law Firm, Stephen Barnett Murray, Julie Ann Ardoin, New Orleans; Bernard Cassisa, Elliott & Davis, Stephen Nolan Elliott, Metairie; Christovich & Kearney, Joseph Warren Gardner, Jr., New Orleans; Crawford Lewis, PLLC, Samuel Milton Rosamond, III, Baton Rouge; Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, Lawrence Goode Pugh, III, New Orleans; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, LLC, Blaine Augusta Moore, Kaye N. Courington, New Orleans; Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC, Mary L. Dumestre, New Orleans; Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, Gordon Peter Wilson, New Orleans; Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy, LLP, Forrest Ren Wilkes, New Orleans; Abbott, Simses & Kuchler, APLC, Michael Henry Abraham; Plauche, Maselli, Landry & Parkerson, LLP, Wendy Kristine Lappenga, New Orleans; Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, LLP, Lori P. Moser, Erin Helen Boyd, Claude Alvin Greco, Stephen Nolan Elliott, Kaye N. Courington, Lori P. Moser, Blaine Augusta Moore, Erin Helen Boyd, Lezly Lyn Petrovich, Holly Elizabeth Ramsey, for respondent in No. 2004-C-2918.

Abbott, Simses & Kuchler, APLC, Houston, Johanna Gabrielle King; Lee, Futrell & Perles, LLP, Richard Marshall Perles, Gary Allen Lee, New Orleans, for Applicant in No. 2004-C-2894.

Blue Williams, LLP, Edwin A. Ellinghausen, III, Brian Carl Bossier, Robert Edgar Caraway, III, Erin Helen Boyd, Mandeville; Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, William Lee Schuette, Jr., Leon Gary, Jr., Baton Rouge; Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, APLC, John Emerson Galloway, Larry Gene Canada, New Orleans; Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, LLP, Dominic J. Ovella, Christopher Kelly Lightfoot, Claude Alvin Greco, Valerie T. Schexnayder, Metairie; Murray Law Firm, Stephen Barnett Murray, Julie Ann Ardoin, New Orleans; Bernard Cassisa, Elliott & Davis, Stephen Nolan Elliott, Metairie; Christovich & Kearney, Joseph Warren Gardner, Jr., New Orleans; Crawford Lewis, PLLC, Samuel Milton Rosamond, III, Baton Rouge; Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, Lawrence Goode Pugh, III, New Orleans; Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, LLC, Blaine Augusta Moore, Kaye N. Courington, New Orleans; Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC, Mary L. Dumestre, New Orleans; Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, Gordon Peter Wilson, New Orleans; Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy, LLP, Forrest Ren Wilkes, New Orleans; Abbott, Simses & Kuchler, APLC, Michael Henry Abraham; Plauche, Maselli, Landry & Parkerson, LLP, Wendy Kristine Lappenga, New Orleans; Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, LLP, Lori P. Moser, Erin Helen Boyd, Claude Alvin Greco, Stephen Nolan Elliott, Kaye N. Courington, Lori P. Moser, Blaine Augusta Moore, Erin Helen Boyd, Lezly Lyn Petrovich, Holly Elizabeth Ramsey, for respondent in No. 2004-C-2894.


WEIMER, Justice.

The sole issue in this case is whether decedent's suit for damages for asbestosis, filed in a Mississippi court seven years prior to decedent's diagnosis of mesothelioma, interrupted prescription from running in this suit filed more than three years after his diagnosis of mesothelioma. Finding as a matter of law that interruption of prescription did not occur, we reverse the appellate court's judgment and...

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