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SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS v. SANDERS

No. 4614.

264 So.2d 270 (1972)

SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS v. Jack SANDERS, d/b/a Laguna Construction Company, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Refused September 27, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Ernest A. Carrere, Jr. and Robert M. Contois, Jr. and John A. Gordon, Special Counsel, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Malcolm W. Monroe and Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, Frederick B. Alexius, New Orleans, of counsel, for defendants-appellees.

Before SAMUEL, REDMANN and STOULIG, JJ.

STOULIG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining an exception of prescription to the plaintiff's action sounding in maritime tort. Appellant urges that the trial court erred in applying the doctrine of prescription rather than the maritime doctrine of laches. Involved is the issue of whether Louisiana courts should apply the admiralty doctrine of laches or the law of prescription in determining whether a suit...

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