AETNA LIFE & CAS. CO. v. DOTSON

No. 11241.

346 So.2d 762 (1977)

AETNA LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY v. Marie DOTSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Byron Stringer, Ray C. Dawson, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff Aetna Life and Casualty, appellant.

Frank J. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, for defendant, Marie Dotson, appellee.

Before LANDRY, EDWARDS and COLE, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court maintaining an exception of prescription filed by the defendant-appellee, Marie Dotson. We affirm.

The issue presented on appeal is whether the cause of action asserted by the plaintiff is one in tort which prescribes in one year or one in quasi-contract which prescribes in ten years.

The allegations of fact presented in plaintiff's petition and clarified by the answers to interrogatories...

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