MUKHTAR v. ORLEANS PARISH

No. 12928.

416 So.2d 147 (1982)

Yusuf Abdul Lumumba MUKHTAR v. ORLEANS PARISH & State of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yusuf Abdul Lumumba Mukhtar, in pro. per.

Freeman R. Matthews, New Orleans, for Charles C. Foti, Jr.

Harry H. Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before GULOTTA, SCHOTT and GARRISON, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

Plaintiff's tort suit, filed in proper person for injuries sustained while incarcerated in the Parish Prison in the City of New Orleans, was dismissed on an exception of prescription. We affirm.

In the petition, filed on October 20, 1980, plaintiff alleges that in April, 1975 at the time of his arrest "he was brutally assaulted by members of the Orleans Parish Police Department". He alleges further that on or about January 16, 1977, while awaiting...

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