RIDDICK & MILLER INV. CO., INC. v. DENICOLA

Nos. 85-CA-0018, 85-CA-0019.

486 So.2d 186 (1986)

RIDDICK & MILLER INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC. v. Mrs. Jasper DENICOLA. Nancy Harris DENICOLA, et al., v. Jessie E. JUBAN, III, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1986.

Writ Denied June 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Leake, Baton Rouge, and Eric Pittman, Livingston, for Riddick & Miller Inv. Co. and Jesse Juban, et al.

Robert Morrison, Denham Springs, for James Nesom and Robert S. Mellon, et al.

J. Donald Cascio, Denham Springs, for Anitalyn Juban Cox.

R. Randall Roche, Baton Rouge, for Nancy H. Denicola, Vickie D. Christ and Suzanne D. Ponder.

Before EDWARDS, LANIER and JOHN S. COVINGTON, JJ.


EDWARDS, Judge.

The Denicola plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of their malpractice action against their attorney and his law firm on an exception of prescription. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiffs seek recovery based on Robert S. Mellon's alleged negligent preparation of an act of sale by which they purchased immovable property in 1971. This malpractice suit was filed January 11, 1984. Thus at first blush the action appears to have prescribed, whether the applicable...

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