YELVERTON, Judge.
The issue in this appeal is whether the right of action of the obligee against a surety on a subcontractor's performance bond is extinguished by the prescription of one year under the Private Works Act. The trial court after a trial on the merits maintained the plea of prescription and dismissed the action. We reverse. We find that the performance bond here was not a statutory bond governed by the Private Works Act, but a conventional contract of...
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