BENTON v. EAST JEFFERSON LEVEE DIST. BD.

No. 95-CA-1028.

672 So.2d 999 (1996)

Linda Dragon BENTON v. The BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR the EAST JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICT as Successors to the Pontchartrain Levee District.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

March 26, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Stringer, Jr., Harahan, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

T. Robert Lacour, Kenner, Perry R. Staub, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BOWES, DUFRESNE, and WICKER, JJ.


DUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Linda Dragon Benton, plaintiff-appellant, from a judgment sustaining an exception of prescription urged by Whitney National Bank, defendant-appellee. The trial judge ruled that plaintiff's claim against the bank for an alleged breach of its fiduciary duty relating to the appropriation of certain of her mother's property by the Pontchartrain Levee District in 1953, had clearly prescribed. For the following reasons we affirm that...

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