YOUNG v. CLEMENT

No. 6475.

359 So.2d 1070 (1978)

Roy YOUNG et ux. v. Richard J. CLEMENT, M.D., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuven N. Rougeau, Lake Charles, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock, Robert W. Clements, Lake Charles, Raggio, Farrar, Cappel & Chozen, R. W. Farrar, Jr., Lake Charles, Charles S. King, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Tommy Rutledge, DeQuincy, for curator absentee-defendant.

Before CULPEPPER, DOMENGEAUX and WATSON, JJ.


WATSON, Judge.

In this malpractice action, the dispositive issues are: (1) whether plaintiffs' claims have prescribed; and (2) whether the trial judge erred in failing to grant a new trial.

The prescription issue was resolved on the basis of factual determinations by the trial court against the plaintiffs. There is a reasonable evidentiary basis in the record for the findings of the trial court and, therefore, there is no manifest error.

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