MELANCON v. WOOD

No. 6493.

303 So.2d 222 (1974)

Claude C. MELANCON, Jr., et al. v. Sidney E. WOOD et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 7, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard S. Dolbear, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Martin, Himel & Peytavin, Lloyd R. Himel, Lutcher, for defendants-appellees.

Before LEMMON, GULOTTA and SCHOTT, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from the dismissal of their petitory action because of abandonment for want of prosecution. Plaintiffs filed suit on October 30, 1967. On September 26, 1968, defendants filed a peremptory exception of prescription. Neither party took any further action until September 26, 1973, when the plaintiffs filed in the record a request for admissions of fact with a certification that such requests had been served by mail on the defendants...

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