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LAVERGNE v. WESTERN CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, INC.

No. 9431.

363 So.2d 1243 (1978)

Joseph Lee LAVERGNE v. WESTERN COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Michael Cashio, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Watson, Blanche, Wilson & Posner, David W. Robinson and George K. Anding, Jr., Baton Rouge, for Zigler Shipyards, Inc. and The Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York, defendants-appellees.

Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.

SAMUEL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting defendants' motion to strike plaintiff's prayer for a jury trial. The matter previously has been before this court on the issue of whether or not the suit was filed timely. On that occasion we held the admiralty doctrine of laches allowed the plaintiff to maintain his suit against defendants even though it was filed after passage of the Louisiana one year prescriptive period.1 However...

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