GRAHAM v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO.

No. 92-710.

619 So.2d 894 (1993)

Erna Mae GRAHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sue Fontenot, Abbeville, Gregory Karl Klein, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellant Erna Mae Graham.

James J. Davidson, III, John Edmund McElligott, Jr., Kyle Liney Mark Gideon, Lafayette, for defendants-appellees So. Pacific Transp. Co., et al.

James T. Guglielmo, Opelousas, for defendant-appellee Town of Scott and Global Ins.

Harvey Lee Hall, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee State of La.

Sidney Hayward Cates, IV, Marsha M. McKendall, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee DOTD.

Before STOKER and DECUIR, JJ., and CULPEPPER, J. Pro Tem.


STOKER, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Erna Mae Graham, from a judgment sustaining an exception of prescription in favor of the Town of Scott, its liability insurer, Great Global Assurance Co., and the State, DOTD. We affirm.

Fault on the part of Southern Pacific Transportation Company and its engineer, Tommy Lee Williams, is a major issue in this case because it bears on the question of interruption of prescription against the appellees, the...

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