REDMANN, Judge.
Appealing from a judgment on jury verdict for $6,500 for personal injuries, defendant supermarket and its insurer urge that the claim was prescribed and, alternatively, that the injury (a recurrent umbilical hernia) was not caused by defendant. We agree that the claim was prescribed.
Plaintiff's petition of May 24, 1972 alleged an accident occurred (Friday) June 4, 1971, less than the prescriptive period of a year prior to suit, C.C. 3536....
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