SHORT v. GIFFIN

No. 94-C-1757.

648 So.2d 937 (1994)

Joan C., Wife of/and Ronald M. SHORT, v. Clifford GIFFIN and Duplantier, Hrapmann, Hogan & Mayer.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Order Amending Judgment on Grant of Rehearing January 19, 1995.

Rehearing Denied February 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry D. Hoskins, III, Hoskins & Hoskins New Orleans, for respondents/plaintiffs.

Robert E. Durgin, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, for relators/defendants Clifford Giffin, et al.

William E. Wright, Jr., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, for relator/defendant Intern. Surplus Lines Ins. Co.

Before PLOTKIN, JONES and LANDRIEU, JJ.


LANDRIEU, Judge.

In this accountant malpractice case, plaintiffs filed suit in October 1990 alleging that the relators negligently advised them to invest in a tax shelter in December 1982. Based on La.Rev.Stat.Ann. 9:5604 and 9:5605 which requires that an action for professional accountant liability be brought within one year of the date of discovery or, in all events, within three years from the date of the alleged act of negligence, relators filed a peremptory exception...

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