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VICKNAIR v. HIBERNIA BLDG. CORP.

No. CA-1473.

459 So.2d 685 (1984)

Beverly Vicknair Wife of/and Floyd VICKNAIR v. HIBERNIA BUILDING CORPORATION and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Granted December 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. D'Amico, Vincent J. Glorioso, Jr., Glorioso, Welcker & Zaunbrecher, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees (Beverly Vicknair Wife of/and Floyd Vicknair).

Franklin D. Beahm, Robert D. Ford, Hammett, Leake & Hammett, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants (Hibernia Building Corporation and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company).

Before GARRISON, KLEES and WARD, JJ.

KLEES, Judge.

In this case, defendant Broadmoor Corporation appeals an award made by the district court to plaintiffs Floyd and Beverly Vicknair and their son Eric for injuries suffered by Beverly and the then unborn Eric on November 3, 1976, when Beverly, then eight months pregnant, was forced to descend twenty-one flights of stairs in response to a false fire alarm. The threshold issue on appeal is defendant's exception of prescription, which was filed for the first...

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