COUVILLION v. ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INS. CO.

No. 5365.

328 So.2d 737 (1976)

Harry COUVILLION et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE CO., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gold, Hall, Hammill & Little by Edward E. Rundell, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellants.

Provosty & Sadler by David P. Spence, Alexandria, for defendant-appellee.

Before GUIDRY, HOOD and PETERS, JJ.


PETERS, Judge ad hoc.

This is a medical malpractice suit. Defendant filed a peremptory exception of prescription which was sustained and plaintiff appealed.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Couvillion, consulted Dr. Joseph Villard, Defendant's insured, on March 15, 1974 concerning a drainage problem in her left ear. Mrs. Couvillion had undergone a mastoidectomy of the left ear in 1953 and had experienced drainage in the ear since that operation. Dr. Villard scheduled plaintiff...

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