SWEATT v. OIL REFINERIES

Civ. A. No. 2805.

29 F.Supp. 992 (1939)

SWEATT v. OIL REFINERIES, Inc., et al.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

August 31, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewell C. Butler, of Shreveport, La., and Bailey & Shaeffer, of Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.

Lee & Lee and Hussey & Smith, all of Shreveport, La., and McGown, McGown, Godfrey & Logan, of Fort Worth, Tex., for defendants.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

After due consideration of the law and the evidence on the plea of prescription of one year filed by the defendants in this case, I am of the view that the same should be overruled. It is my belief that the circumstances of this case are such that the plaintiff and his predecessors in office did not and could not, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, have discovered the facts which were necessary to support this cause of action until within...

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